Segmented filamentous bacteria are potent stimuli of a physiologically normal state of the murine gut mucosal immune system

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1992-2000

  Talham, Gwen L ^a   Jiang, Han Qing ^a   Bos, Nicolaas A ^b   Cebra, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LYMPH NODE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MOUSE; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN;

EID: 0033004028     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.4.1992-2000.1999     Document Type: Article

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