Therapy of uncomplicated nonspecific ulcerative colitis with artrofoon effectively reduces the duration and number of relapses. During remissions, the count of apudocytes, serotonin-, melatonin-, vasointestinal peptide-producing, and mast cells and the parameters of cell homeostasis against the background of artrofoon therapy were much closer to the normal than during treatment with salofalk.
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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 148, Suppl. 1, pp. 121-124, September, 2009
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Osadchuk, A.M., Osadchuk, M.A. Artrofoon as Alternative Preparation in the Treatment of Uncomplicated Forms of Nonspecific Ulcerative Colitis. Bull Exp Biol Med 148, 482–485 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-010-0742-5
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