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MICROBIOLOGY: How to Get Along--Friendly Microbes in a Hostile World
Ramnik J. Xavier and Daniel K. Podolsky
Microbiologists have long been puzzled by the finding that the gut mucosa does not respond to the myriad varieties of bacteria that normally reside in the gut. As Xavier and Podolsky explain in their Perspective, this may be because bacteria that are indigenous to the gut have learned ways to switch off pathways in gut epithelial cells that lead to switching on of genes involved in inflammation (Neish et al.).
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Andrew S. Neish, Andrew T. Gewirtz, Hui Zeng, Andrew N. Young, Michael E. Hobert, Vinit Karmali, Anjali S. Rao, and James L. Madara (1 September 2000) Science289 (5484), 1560.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5484.1560] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »
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