Intestinal mucosal tolerance and impact of gut microbiota to mucosal tolerance

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Chistiakov, Dmitry A ^a,b,c   Bobryshev, Yuri V ^d,e,f   Kozarov, Emil ^g   Sobenin, Igor A ^d,g,h   Orekhov, Alexander N ^d  

^a PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center   (United States)

^c Scientific Center of Children's Health   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF GENERAL PATHOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL CARDIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Harmful antigens; Immune system; Intestinal microbiota; Microflora; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; MUCOSAL ADDRESSIN CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

DENDRITIC CELL; DOWN REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSAL TOLERANCE; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LAMINA PROPRIA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICROENVIRONMENT; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

EID: 84920662099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00781     Document Type: Review

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