The impact of gut microbiota on gender-specific differences in immunity

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2017, Pages

  Fransen, Floris ^a,b   van Beek, Adriaan A ^a,c   Borghuis, Theo ^a,b   Meijer, Ben ^c   Hugenholtz, Floor ^a,c   van der Gaast de Jongh, Christa ^d   Savelkoul, Huub F ^c   de Jonge, Marien I ^d   Faas, Marijke M ^a,b   Boekschoten, Mark V ^a,c   Smidt, Hauke ^a,c   Aidy, Sahar El ^e   de Vos, Paul ^a,b  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender; Germ free mice; Gut microbiota; Immunity; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALISTIPES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; DNA DAMAGE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONADACEAE; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RIKENELLACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 85021765830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00754     Document Type: Article

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