INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COLORECTAL DISEASE, vol.22, no.6, pp.591-599, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Background Inflammatory bowel disease is a multifactorial inflammatory disease of the colon and rectum with an unknown etiology. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) induction by glutamine could protect colitis-induced damage from oxidative, inflammatory, and apoptotic damage.