The role of gut microbiota in immune homeostasis and autoimmunity

Gut Microbes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Hsin Jung ^a   Wu, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Antibiotics; Autoimmune; Commensal; Cytokine; Germ free; Microbiota; Mucosal immunity

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CROHN DISEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; FIRMICUTES; GAMMA DELTA T LYMPHOCYTE; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TH1 CELL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84863380407     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.19320     Document Type: Review

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