The mammalian intestine is colonized by trillions of microorganisms that have co-evolved
with the host in a symbiotic relationship. The presence of large numbers of symbionts near …

Interest toward the human microbiome, particularly gut microbiome has flourished in recent
decades owing to the rapidly advancing sequence-based screening and humanized …

Memory T cells constitute the most abundant lymphocyte population in the body for the
majority of a person's lifetime; however, our understanding of memory T cell generation …

Alteration of the gut microbiota has been associated with different gastrointestinal disorders.
Normobiosis restoration by faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is considered a …

Background & Aims Interactions between commensal microbes and the immune system are
tightly regulated and maintain intestinal homeostasis, but little is known about these …

Aberrant immune responses to resident microbes promote inflammatory bowel disease and
other chronic inflammatory conditions. However, how microbiota-specific immunity is …

The human gut is populated with as many as 100 trillion cells, whose collective genome, the
microbiome, is a reflection of evolutionary selection pressures acting at the level of the host …

The microbiota of the mammalian intestine depend largely on dietary polysaccharides as
energy sources. Most of these polymers are not degradable by the host, but herbivores can …

In recent years the status of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) as canonical
autoimmune diseases has risen steadily with the recognition that these diseases are, at their …

Abundant data have incriminated intestinal bacteria in the initiation and amplification stages
of inflammatory bowel diseases. However, the precise role of intestinal bacteria remains …