TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Ali Ahmed Elnady AU - Ayman Fouad , AU - Mazen Naga , AU - Monique Capron , TI - Schistosomiasis and crohn's disease : : Pathogenesis of immune modulation / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Ali Ahmed Elnady , KW - Crobn's disease KW - Helminthic proteins KW - Schistosomiasis N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Inflammatory bowel diseases are considered part of immune- mediated inflammatory disorders . Their pathogenesis was linked to an inappropriate exaggerated immune response to commensal bacteria normally present in the bowel in genetically predisposed individuals . Increase of the level of hygiene and decrease exposure to helminthic infections was suggested as predisposing factors to IBD . Epidemiologic data have given a clue on the relation of prevalence of helminthic infections and the incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases in developing countries UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -