IL2RA and inflammatory bowel disease: To confirm previously published data[9] that functional Tregs are present in the intestinal mucosa of IBD patients, we were able to sort sufficient numbers of CD25+/CD127- CD4+ T cells from the homogenized, surgically resected intestinal LPL of three UC patients, three Crohn’s patients, and one patient without IBD to perform in vitro suppression assays.