Emerging role of colorectal mucus in gastroenterology diagnostics

Figure 1 Box and whisker plot and individual result distributions and receiver operating characteristic curve for the combined CALEDN test at stage 1 of the study. In the panel within the inflammatory bowel disease group, blue and red circles correspond to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis cases, respectively. AUC: Area under the curve; IBS: Irritable bowel syndrome; CD: Crohn’s disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis. Citation: Loktionov A, Chhaya V, Bandaletova T, Poullis A. Inflammatory bowel disease detection and monitoring by measuring biomarkers in non-invasively collected colorectal mucus. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2017; 32: 992-1002. Copyright© The Authors 2017. Published by John Wiley and Sons. A: Box and whisker plot; B: Receiver operating characteristic curve.