Immunomodulatory activities of polysaccharides from Ganoderma on immune effector cells

L Ren, J Zhang, T Zhang - Food Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are the most abundant bioactive compounds in Ganoderma and have been
widely used as dietary supplements in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years …

Gut microbiota, short-chain fatty acids, and herbal medicines

W Feng, H Ao, C Peng - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
As an important source for traditional medical systems such as Ayurvedic medicine and
traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicines have received widespread attentions from …

Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

DM Altmann, RJ Boyton, R Beale - Science, 2021 - science.org
Vaccine candidates based on spike, the glycoprotein that is essential for host cell entry by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), were being designed …

Gut microbiota, a new frontier to understand traditional Chinese medicines

W Feng, H Ao, C Peng, D Yan - Pharmacological Research, 2019 - Elsevier
As an important component of complementary and alternative medicines, traditional
Chinese medicines (TCM) are gaining more and more attentions around the world because …

Gut microbiota dysbiosis and altered tryptophan catabolism contribute to autoimmunity in lupus-susceptible mice

SC Choi, J Brown, M Gong, Y Ge, M Zadeh… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
The autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by the
production of pathogenic autoantibodies. It has been postulated that gut microbial dysbiosis …

Ensuring the future of functional foods

CS Birch, GA Bonwick - International Journal of Food Science & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Consumption of functional foods suggests a strategy to reduce the incidence of chronic
health disorders. This message has resonated with consumers and driven market growth …

Commensal fungi in intestinal health and disease

KS Ost, JL Round - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2023 - nature.com
The microbiota is known to influence several facets of mammalian development, digestion
and disease. Most studies of the microbiota have focused on the bacterial component, but …

Pathogenic autoreactive T and B cells cross-react with mimotopes expressed by a common human gut commensal to trigger autoimmunity

WE Ruff, C Dehner, WJ Kim, O Pagovich, CL Aguiar… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
Given the immense antigenic load present in the microbiome, we hypothesized that
microbiota mimotopes can be a persistent trigger in human autoimmunity via cross-reactivity …

Understanding immune–microbiota interactions in the intestine

PP Ahern, KJ Maloy - Immunology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades have seen an explosion in research that aims to understand how the
dynamic interplay with the gut microbiota impacts host health and disease, establishing a …

Cross talk between neutrophils and the microbiota

D Zhang, PS Frenette - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
The microbiota has emerged as an important regulator of the host immunity by the induction,
functional modulation, or suppression of local and systemic immune responses. In return …