Research Article

Reduced T Cell Receptor Excision Circle Levels in the Colonic Mucosa of Microscopic Colitis Patients Indicate Local Proliferation rather than Homing of Peripheral Lymphocytes to the Inflamed Mucosa

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Mucosal mRNA levels of CD3γ in patients with collagenous colitis (CC), CC-histopathological remission (CC-HR), lymphocytic colitis (LC), LC-histopathological remission (LC-HR), noninflamed diarrhoea patients, and controls. The relative expression was calculated by the method. Each symbol represents data from one individual. One symbol with the circle in LC-HR group represents a statistical outlier and was excluded from the statistical calculations. Controls, ; CC, ; CC-HR, ; LC, ; LC-HR, ; and noninflamed diarrhoea, . LC patients showed statistically significant differences (*,** , ) compared to other groups.
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