Kosei Hirakawa

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article 2010

Phenotypic change and accumulation of smooth muscle cells in strictures in Crohn’s disease: relevance to local angiotensin II system

·doi:10.1007/s00535-010-0232-6

BackgroundIntestinal stricture lesions in Crohn's disease are characterized as submucosal fibromuscular accumulation. There has been a controversy about whether the fibrogenic cells in stricture lesions in Crohn's disease originate from a s…