Journal:
:international journal of pediatrics
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gh fallahi pediatrics center of excellence, research center for immunodeficiencies, children’s medical center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
a aghamohammadi pediatrics center of excellence, research center for immunodeficiencies, children’s medical center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
a khodadad pediatrics center of excellence, research center for immunodeficiencies, children’s medical center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
m hashemi arak university of medical sciences, faculty of medicine, arak, iran.
p mohammadinejad arak university of medical sciences, faculty of medicine, arak, iran.
h asgarian-omran arak university of medical sciences, faculty of medicine, arak, iran.
background/aims: inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a chronic disease of the gastrointestinal tract, whose etiologies are still unknown. this study was performed to evaluate the humoral immune response in terms of b cell functions in selected ibd patients. methods: eighteen pediatric patients with ibd, including 12 cases of ulcerative colitis (uc) and six with crohn disease (cd), were enrolled...