Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Heterochronic faecal transplantation boosts gut germinal centres in aged mice

  • Marisa Stebegg,
  • Alyssa Silva-Cayetano,
  • Silvia Innocentin,
  • Timothy P. Jenkins,
  • Cinzia Cantacessi,
  • Colin Gilbert,
  • Michelle A. Linterman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10430-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Microbiota impacts all major aspects of physiology, but little is known about its effects on age-related changes in immune responses. Here the authors show that gut microbiota transfer between adult and old mice increases local but not systemic germinal centre responses regardless of age directionality.