Helicobacter bilis: bacterial provocateur orchestrates host immune responses to commensal flora in a model of inflammatory bowel disease

Gut. 2007 Jul;56(7):898-900. doi: 10.1136/gut.2006.115428.

Author

J G Fox¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 16, Room 825C, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. jgfox@mit.edu

Abstract

Helicobacter bilis can elicit heterologous immune responses to lower gut flora

Publication types

Comment
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Colitis / immunology
Colitis / microbiology
Disease Models, Animal*
Germ-Free Life
Helicobacter / classification
Helicobacter / immunology*
Helicobacter Infections / complications
Helicobacter Infections / immunology*
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / immunology*
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / microbiology
Mice
Mice, Inbred Strains
Symbiosis