NKT cell-deficient mice harbor an altered microbiota that fuels intestinal inflammation during chemically induced colitis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 197, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4464-4472

  Selvanantham, Thirumahal ^a   Lin, Qiaochu ^a   Guo, Cynthia Xinyi ^a   Surendra, Anuradha ^b,c   Fieve, Stephanie ^a   Escalante, Nichole K ^a   Guttman, David S ^b,c   Streutker, Catherine J ^d   Robertson, Susan J ^a   Philpott, Dana J ^a   Mallevaey, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN SULFATE; MUCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFERRIBACTERES; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INTESTINE FLORA; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; MUCISPIRILLUM; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLUM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; COLITIS; DEXTRAN SULFATE; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; PREVOTELLA; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84996477421     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601410     Document Type: Article

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