Gut microbiota imbalance and chaperoning system malfunction are central to ulcerative colitis pathogenesis and can be counteracted with specifically designed probiotics: A working hypothesis

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 202, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 393-406

  Bellavia, Maurizio ^a,b   Tomasello, Giovanni ^a,b   Romeo, Marcello ^c   Damiani, Provvidenza ^c   Lo Monte, Attilio I ^a,c   Lozio, Luciano ^d   Campanella, Claudia ^b,c   Gammazza, Antonella Marino ^b,c   Rappa, Francesca ^b,c   Zummo, Giovanni ^c   Cocchi, Massimo ^e   Conway De Macario, Everly ^f,g   Macario, Alberto J L ^b,f,g   Cappello, Francesco ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Euro Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d Center for Studies on Pharmacology and Biophysics of Nutrition   (Italy)

^e L U de S University   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat shock proteins; Inflammation; Microbiota; Molecular chaperones; Probiotics; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

BALSALAZIDE; CHAPERONE; CHAPERONIN 60; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; MESALAZINE; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REMISSION; REVIEW; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84891371591     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: 14321831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-013-0305-2     Document Type: Review

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