Grant Publications

Proposal No.  IBD-0006
Principal Investigator:  M. Bishr Omary, Ph.D., M.D.
Applicant Organization:  Stanford University (California, U.S.A.)
Project Title:  Keratin mutations as a risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease 
Period of Award:  April 1, 2002 - September 30, 2003

Omary MB, Coulombe PA, McLean WHI.  Intermediate filament proteins and their associated diseases.  New England Journal of Medicine 2004;351:2087-100.

Habtezion A, Toivola DM, Butcher EC, Omary MB.  Keratin-8-deficient mice develop chronic spontaneous Th2 colitis amenable to antibiotic treatment.  Journal of Cell Science 2005;118:1971-80.

Tao GZ, Strnad P, Zhou Q, Kamal A, Zhang L, Madani ND, Kugathasan S, Brant SR, Cho JH, Omary MB, Duerr RH.  Analysis of keratin polypeptides 8 and 19 variants in inflammatory bowel disease.  Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2007; 5:857-64.