How the microbiota shapes rheumatic diseases

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 398-411

  Van De Wiele, Tom ^a   Van Praet, Jens T ^a,b,c   Marzorati, Massimo ^a   Drennan, Michael B ^a,b   Elewaut, Dirk ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c Division of Nephrology and Infectious Diseases   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; BUTYRIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; HLA B27 ANTIGEN; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLLAGEN-INDUCED ARTHRITIS; COMMENSAL; CROHN DISEASE; DYSBIOSIS; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FIRMICUTES; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ANIMAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PATHOLOGY; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DYSBIOSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICROBIOTA; PROBIOTICS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84974794919     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2016.85     Document Type: Review

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