Gut microbes extend reach to systemic innate immunity (original) (raw)

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Microbes in the gut can influence distant events, affecting the function of neutrophils in the circulation of mice (pages 228–231). The findings should lead to new studies examining how intestinal microbes affect immunity.

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Figure 1: The microflora primes systemic innate immunity.

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  1. Dana J. Philpott is in the Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,
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  2. Stephen E. Girardin is in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,
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Philpott, D., Girardin, S. Gut microbes extend reach to systemic innate immunity.Nat Med 16, 160–161 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0210-160

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