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Compromise of the intestinal barrier have been associated with a series of inflammatory conditions where the routine controls nutrient absorption and pathogens exclusion is lost to different degrees. The intestinal epithelial cells form a barrier of selective permeability which protects from invasion by the normal bacteria present in the gut. When the barrier is compromised, bacteria and their products can attack the cells and cause inflammation, which can (in severe cases) cause sepsis. Mesenteric lymph nodes play a crucial role in the immune response and are of particular importance in the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients due to their involvement in the disease process. To assess the efficiency of gut immune barrier, we collected the pre-nodal lymph from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) subjects and performed a comprehensive proteomic analysis. The current study is complementary extension of the proteomics signature found in DSS-induced colitis mouse model, providing an insight in the lymph composition, and associated biochemical changes, in the set of samples (n=6) recruited from the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), subjects undergoing intestinal resection. Following bottom-up analysis, the enrichment analysis – GO and Ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA) analysis identified several pathways pointing towards a damaging phenotype.