Skin microbes do more than coexist—they shape immune responses, repair tissue, and influence gene expression across your ...

The most widely held hypothesis on the pathogenesis of IBD is that overly aggressive acquired (T cell) immune responses to a subset of commensal enteric bacteria develop in genetically susceptible ...

Most analyses of commensal microbiota have been directed toward the gut microbiota and its role in the development of the intestinal immune system, and in regulating the immune response at sites ...

However, flagellin is possessed not only by pathogenic bacteria but also by those who are in commensal relationships with their plant hosts, who accommodate a diverse collection of microbes known ...

These findings identified a distinct subset of patients with CD, united by a shared reactivity to a dominant commensal bacterial flagellin epitope, that may represent failure of a homeostatic ...

Commensal bacteria can inhibit colonization of pathogens through competition for metabolites including carbon sources, iron, and oxygen as well as production of inhibitory substances. Help guide ...

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 ...

A novel compound targets an essential transport system found only in disease-causing bacteria, leaving commensal bacteria unharmed. “Antibiotics have selectivity for bacteria over human cells, but ...

Caption Left, commensal bacteria (red) in the intestine are kept at a distance from the colonic tissue by a thick layer of mucus (green). Antibiotics perturb the integrity of the mucus layer ...

NO is primarily produced through two pathways: the endogenous L-arginine pathway, which relies on NO synthase enzymes, and ...

Nasal cavity commensal bacteria are the densest microbiome in the upper respiratory tract and have a very close connection with the CNS. Therefore, the authors considered whether these bacteria ...