GI Microbiota and Regulation of the Immune System
Publication year: 2008
: 978-0-387-09550-9
This book opens with two general reference chapters, which provide an over-view of current knowledge of gastrointestinal immunology and the commensal microbiology of the gut. Next are two chapters dedicated to current methodologies used to investigate the icrobiota and host: molecular analysis of microbial diver-sity and gnotobiotic research. Both positive and negative interactions between the microbiota and the immune system can take place in the gut, with chapters dedicated to probiotics and intestinal diseases associated with unhealthy rnicrobiota.
: Biomedical and Life Sciences, antibiotics, bacteria, diseases, immune response, immunity, immunology, infection, infections, infectious disease, inflammation, microbiology, pathogenesis
