Interactions between commensal intestinal bacteria and the immune system

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 478-485

  Macpherson, Andrew J ^a   Harris, Nicola L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADAPTATION; ALLERGY; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMMENSALISM; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 2942625911     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1373     Document Type: Review

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