A new study reveals how gut bacteria may initiate ulcerative colitis by weakening immune defenses before inflammation occurs.

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a representative clinical manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease that causes chronic gastrointestinal tract inflammation. Dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis ...

Why Do People Get a Colonoscopy for Ulcerative Colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and sores to form in the large intestine and rectum. It ...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis (UC) represent serious health burdens because of both the tissue-damaging disease itself and an elevated risk of colon cancer. The ...

A team led by clinicians and engineers has wrapped the plant-derived polyphenol pterostilbene (PSB) into prebiotic ...

We carry around vast numbers of bacteria in our gastrointestinal tract, and that community of microbes, the gut microbiome, can be very important to our health. Imbalances in the gut microbiome can ...

Ulcerative colitis is a complex digestive disease that presents in a variety of different ways, making it difficult to diagnose. Although we do not know what causes ulcerative colitis, it is thought ...

Colitis and ulcerative colitis (UC) can look very similar because they share symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody stool, and they both involve inflammation of the colon (the large ...

A 50-year-old male patient presented to an outpatient clinic in the spring of 2020 with fever and dyspnea; he told clinicians that the symptoms had persisted for the past 3 days. Physical examination ...

Ulcerative colitis causes bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, and changes in bowel habits. UC flare-ups are worsened by stress, certain foods, and menstrual cycles. Other symptoms of UC include fever, ...