Role of the intestinal epithelium and the innate immune response
The dysbiosis observed in IBD could be related to an alteration of the gut epithelium, which is no longer a...
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Association between fungal dysbiosis and environment
The fungal portion of the gut microbiota (or mycobiota) has been much less studied than the bacterial porti...
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Professor Philippe SEKSIK is a physician and researcher who works at the gastroenterology and nutrition dep...
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Treatment with strains of living beneficial bacteria was long considered the safest and most sustainable ap...
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Recent studies on the interactions between immunity and microbiota shed a new light on the complex etiology...
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Since gut dysbiosis seems to be associated to IBD, microbiota modulation could be a new avenue for relevant...
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) are small multifunctional peptides present in the animal and plant kingdoms th...
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In addition to bacteria, the gut microbiota is also composed of viruses. Although studies focusing on virus...
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Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are characterized by an inflammation of the gastrointestinal wall that ma...
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