One commensal bacterial molecule - All we need for health?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2078-2080

  Fiocchi, Claudio ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMMENSALISM; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; SYMBIOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DENDRITIC CELLS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 27744433702     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr053171     Document Type: Article

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