These images show intestines of wild-type and knockout mice injected with dextran (red) and imaged using two-photon microscopy. DAPI (blue) shows stained cells within the intestinal epithelium. Dye tracking (red) between DAPI (blue) labelled cells indicates a leaky intestinal epithelium. (Credit: Kamal Khanna, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Farmington)
Bacteria that aid in digestion keep the intestinal lining intact, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and associates have found.
The findings, reported online in the journal Immunity, could yield new therapies for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and a wide range of other disorders.
The research involved the intestinal microbiome, which contains some 100 trillion bacteria. The role of these microorganisms in promoting or preventing disease is a major emerging field of study.
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More on gut Bacteria:
Do gut bacteria control your mind?
| August 20, 2014 |
Bacteria within you — which outnumber your own cells about 100 times — may be affecting both your cravings and moods to get you to eat what they want, and may be driving you toward obesity. That’s the conclusion of an article published this week in the journal BioEssays by researchers from UC San Francisco, … more…
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