Inflammatory arthritis and systemic bone loss are attenuated by gastrointestinal helminth parasites

Infections with different helminth species have been observed to ameliorate a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases. Herein, we show that the natural murine helminth species, Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hp) is capable of attenuating disease severity in two different inflammatory arthritis m...

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Main Authors: Kerstin Sarter, Manuel Kulagin, Georg Schett, Nicola L. Harris, Mario M. Zaiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-04-01
Series:Autoimmunity
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08916934.2016.1261837