Integrative Network-based Analysis of Colonic Detoxification Gene Expression in Ulcerative Colitis According to Smoking Status

摘要

Backgrounds and Aims: The effect of cigarette smoking [CS] is ambivalent since smoking improves ulcerative colitis [UC] while it worsens Crohn's disease [CD]. Although this clinical relationship between inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] and tobacco is well established, only a few experimental works have investigated the effect of smoking on the colonic barrier homeostasis focusing on xenobiotic detoxification genes.