[The aim of the present study was: 1) to examine the expression of ghrelin and TNF-alpha mRNA in the inflamed colonic mucosa of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), 2) to analyze the effect of treatment with exogenous ghrelin on the healing of trinitrobenze sulphonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis in rats, and 3) to assess the effects of ghrelin treatment on mRNA expression for iNOS and protein expression for COX-2 and PPARalpha in intact colonic mucosa and in that with TNBS-induced colitis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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