Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Bone marrow lympho-myeloid malfunction in obesity requires precursor cell-autonomous TLR4

  • Ailing Liu,
  • Minhui Chen,
  • Rashmi Kumar,
  • Maja Stefanovic-Racic,
  • Robert M. O’Doherty,
  • Ying Ding,
  • Willi Jahnen-Dechent,
  • Lisa Borghesi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03145-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Obesity can affect bone marrow cell differentiation and the generation of myeloid and lymphoid cells. Here, the authors show that diet and obesity, as well as low-dose lipopolysaccharide, can alter Toll-like receptor 4 signaling bone marrow cells to skew the myeloid-lymphoid homeostasis in mice.