Ernest Seidman, MD
Primary Axis:
Infection and Immunity
Secondary Axis:
Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Kidney Diseases
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Translational research in the area of immune-mediated gastrointestinal disorders, with the overall aim of uncovering pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease and in improving upon diagnostic methods and therapeutic outcomes.Inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, gastroenterology, nutrition, mucosal immunology, allergy, endoscopy, pediatric gastroenterology, pharmacogenetics, colon cancer
Keywords:
Inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, gastroenterology, nutrition, mucosal immunology, allergy, endoscopy, pediatric gastroenterology, pharmacogenetics, colon cancer
Location:
Montreal General Hospital Publications:
Amre DK, Mack D, Israel D, Morgan K, Lambrette P, Law L, Grimard G, Deslandres C, Krupoves A, Bucionis V, Costea I, Bissonauth V, Feguery H, D’Souza S, Levy E, Seidman EG. Association between genetic variants in the IL23R gene and early-onset Crohn’s disease. Results from a case-control and family-based study among Canadian children. Am J Gastroenterol 2008; 103 (3): 615-20
D’Souza Y, Dionne S, Seidman E, Bitton A, Ward BJ. No evidence of persisting measles virus in tissue from children with inflammatory bowel disease. Gut 2007 56: 886-8.
Amre DK, Lambrette P, Law L, Krupoves A, Chotard V, Costea F, Grimard G, Israel D, Mack D, Seidman EG. Investigating the hygiene hypothesis as a risk factor in pediatric onset Crohn’s disease: A case-control study. Am J Gastroenterol 2006; 101:1005-11.
