“…In addition to systemic inflammation biomarkers and intestinal mucosal expression of RNA about inflammatory cytokines (Aerssens et al, 2008;Swan et al, 2013), many studies focused on differently expressed proteins in serum samples between IBS patients and healthy controls by mass spectrometry. (Tsigaridas et al, 2018;Weaver et al, 2018) Previous studies identified 8 differently expressed proteins (IGKC, LAC3, APOE, CLUS, TRFE, APOH, XIV and COEA1) between IBS patients (n = 30) and healthy individuals (n = 10). (Tsigaridas et al, 2018) Another study by Kristen et al found TGFβ1, PF4V1, PF4, APP, MMP9, PPBP, CTGF, SRGN, THBS1, WRN, LTBP1 (Isoform 3), and IGLV5-48 were significantly different in levels of expression of serum samples Frontiers in Physiology frontiersin.org 10 between IBS-C patients and healthy controls (n = 5 in each group).…”