• European guidelines on microscopic colitis: United European Gastroenterology (UEG) and European Microscopic Colitis Group (EMCG) statements and recommendations 

      Miehlke, Stephan; Guagnozzi, Danila; Zabana, Yamile; Tontini, Gian E; Fiehn, Anne-Marie Kanstrup; Wildt, Signe; Bohr, Johan; Bonderup, Ole K.; Bouma, Gerd; D’Amato, Mauro; Engel, Peter Johan Heiberg; Fernandez-Banares, Fernando; Macaigne, Gilles; Hjortswang, Henrik; Hultgren-Hörnquist, Elisabeth; Koulaouzidis, Anastasios; Kupcinskas, Jouzas; Landolfi, Stefania; Latella, Giovanni; Lucendo, Alfredo; Lyutakov, Ivan; Madisch, Ahmed; Magro, Fernando; Marlicz, Wojciech; Mihaly, Emese; Munck, Lars Kristian; Østvik, Ann Elisabet; Patai, Árpád V; Penchev, Plamen; Skonieczna-Żydecka, Karolina; Verhaegh, Bas; Münch, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Introduction Microscopic colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterised by normal or almost normal endoscopic appearance of the colon, chronic watery, nonbloody diarrhoea and distinct histological abnormalities, ...
    • Intestinal epithelial cells express immunomodulatory ISG15 during active ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease 

      Østvik, Ann Elisabet; Svendsen, Tarjei Dahl; Granlund, Atle van Beelen; Doseth, Berit; Skovdahl, Helene Kolstad; Bakke, Ingunn; Thorsvik, Silje; Afroz, Wahida; Walaas, Gunnar Andreas; Mollnes, Tom Eirik; Gustafsson, Björn; Sandvik, Arne Kristian; Bruland, Torunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background and Aims Intestinal epithelial cells [IECs] secrete cytokines that recruit immune cells to the mucosa and regulate immune responses that drive inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD]. However, experiments ...
    • Mucosal and faecal neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin as potential biomarkers for collagenous colitis 

      Bakke, Ingunn; Walaas, Gunnar Andreas; Bruland, Torunn; Røyset, Elin Synnøve; Granlund, Atle van Beelen; Escudero-Hernandez, Celia; Thorsvik, Silje; Münch, Andreas; Sandvik, Arne Kristian; Østvik, Ann Elisabet (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Collagenous colitis (CC) is an inflammatory bowel disease where chronic diarrhoea is the main symptom. Diagnostic markers distinguishing between CC and other causes of chronic diarrhoea remain elusive. This study ...
    • Transcriptomic Profiling of Collagenous Colitis Identifies Hallmarks of Nondestructive Inflammatory Bowel Disease 

      Escudero-hernandez, Celia; Granlund, Atle van Beelen; Bruland, Torunn; Sandvik, Arne Kristian; Koch, Stefan; Østvik, Ann Elisabet; Munch, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background and aims: The pathophysiology of the inflammatory bowel disease collagenous colitis (CC) is poorly described. Our aim was to use RNA sequencing of mucosal samples from patients with active CC, CC in remission, ...