An experimental model reproduces creeping fat associated with Crohn's disease and facilitates its study

A team of researchers from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and the Institut de Recerca Biomèdica Catalunya Sud (IRB CatSud, formerly IISPV) has published a study in the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases describing an experimental rat model that reproduces key features of creeping fat, the accumulation of adipose tissue surrounding inflamed intestinal segments and one of the characteristic pathological features of Crohn's disease.