Frontiers in Microbiology (Jan 2015)

Intestinal mucosal tolerance and impact of gut microbiota to mucosal tolerance

  • Dimitry A Chistiakov,
  • Yuri V Bobryshev,
  • Emil eKozarov,
  • Igor A Sobenin,
  • Alexander Nikolaevich Orekhov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00781
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5

Abstract

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The mucosal barriers are very sensitive to pathogenic infection, thereby assuming the capacity of the mucosal immune system to induce protective immunity to harmful antigens and tolerance against harmless substances. This review provides current information about mechanisms of induction of mucosal tolerance and about impact of gut microbiota to mucosal tolerance.

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