| CDDW 2003 |
CAG POSTER SESSION A - SUNDAY
IMMUNOLOGY AND INFLAMMATORY
BOWEL DISEASES
[019]
T HELPER (TH) 1 AND TH2 CELL TRAFFICKING IN THE INTESTINE OF TUMOUR NECROSIS
FACTOR (TNF)-Alpha AND INTERLEUKIN (IL)-4 TREATED MICE
CS Bonder, DM McCafferty, C Weaver1,
D Bullard2, Paul Kubes
Immunology Research
Group, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Calgary, Alberta;
1Department of Pathology & 2Department of Genomics
& Pathobiology, University of Alabama, Alabama, USA
[020]
SEROLOGICAL MARKERS IN FAMILIAL INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (IBD)
DN Moskovitz1, H Steinhart1,
D Amre2, R McLeod1, K Siminovitch1, Z Cohen1,
G Greenberg1, E Seidman2, MS Silverberg1
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario1; Sainte Justine Hospital,
Montreal, Quebec2
[021]
INHIBITION OF SUPERANTIGEN-INDUCED T CELL ACTIVATION BY THE GREEN TEA POLYPHENOL
(-)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE (EGCG)
James L Watson, Maria Vicario, Derek M McKay
IDRP, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
[022]
ROLE OF TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR AND TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA GENE
POLYMORPHISMS IN CLINICAL HETEROGENEITY IN CROHN'S DISEASE
KA Waschke1, S Vermeire1,
L Dufresne1, T-C Chen1, A-C Villani1, S Derghazarian1,
A Bitton1, ABR Thomson2, GE Wild1
1Department
of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec;
2Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
[023]
NEUTROPHIL GRANULOCYTES MEDIATE ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY IN EXPERIMENTAL
COLITIS
L Boyer, M Ghoreishi, V Templeman, BA Vallance, G Jevon, K Jacobson
BCRI and Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, BC Children's Hospital,
Vancouver, British Columbia
[024]
IL-2 ALPHA CHAIN RECEPTOR (IL-2RA), IL-15 & INTERFERON-Alpha TISSUE LEVELS
IN PEDIATRIC CROHN'S DISEASE
Manuel Silva, José Menezes, Sarah Wizman, Ernest Seidman
Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre, University
of Montréal, Montréal, Québec