Cizmarova, Ivana
Bystricky, Peter
Zelinkova, Zuzana
Mikus, Peter https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5755-9970
Funding for this research was provided by:
the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia (09I03-03-V04-00157)
Article History
Received: 11 March 2026
Accepted: 13 August 2026
First Online: 18 August 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethics approval and informed consent: Human serum samples were obtained from both healthy volunteers and IBD-treated patients. The study was approved by the local ethics committee, approval of Ethical Committee of Faculty of Pharmacy Comenius University Bratislava, No. 03/2025, and approval of Ethical Committee of Nemocnia Bory-Penta Hospitals a.s., issued 23/12/2024, for volunteer and patient samples, respectively, and informed consent have been obtained for the study involving patients and volunteers.