The effects of commensal microbiota on immune cell subsets and inflammatory responses

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-55

  Chinen, Takatoshi ^a,b   Rudensky, Alexander Y ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commensal microbiota; Gnotobiotic mice; Regulatory t cells; Th17

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; DEXTRAN SULFATE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED KINASE 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 27; INTERLEUKIN 6; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; RETINAL DEHYDROGENASE; SERUM AMYLOID A; STAT3 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; COMMENSAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GNOTOBIOTICS; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SYMBIONT; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; METAGENOME; SYMBIOSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 83655196785     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2011.01083.x     Document Type: Review

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