Here, we describe our developing understanding of the far-reaching effects that the commensal flora have on mucosal and systemic immunity and their relevance to the effects of hygiene on human ...

Although the implication of these claims for gut health is potentially very important, the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which individual members of the commensal flora contribute to immune ...

Commensal oropharyngeal flora appeared to be a possible cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a number of patients admitted to the ICU, according to study results. “The current study ...

The Human Microbiome Project is another database that allows interaction networks between host and commensal bacteria to be visualized in greater detail. Commensal bacteria inhabit their own ...

“The thing that we keep coming back to is that preserving the commensal flora in the microbiome is good for transplant patients.” Commensal flora are microbes that live in the body without causing ...

[1] Shortly after birth, the appendix becomes a reservoir for enteric flora that colonize the lumen ... maintenance of immunological tolerance to commensal flora. Thus, the immunological function ...

One major group of commensal gut bacteria, the Bacteroidetes, avoids becoming collateral damage with just one gene, which encodes an enzyme that modifies lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in their cell ...

In several studies, researchers have found that the B and T cells that attack the body bind human proteins as well as mimics of those proteins made by commensal bacteria. Commensal bacteria from the ...