Gut microbiota modulates lung fibrosis severity following acute lung injury in mice

Direct modulation of the gut microbiota via rearing environments and fecal microbiota transplantation in a bleomycin-induced murine model suggests that a functional gut-lung axis modulates lung fibrosis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ozioma S. Chioma, Elizabeth K. Mallott, Austin Chapman, Joseph C. Van Amburg, Hongmei Wu, Binal Shah-Gandhi, Nandita Dey, Marina E. Kirkland, M. Blanca Piazuelo, Joyce Johnson, Gordon R. Bernard, Sobha R. Bodduluri, Steven Davison, Bodduluri Haribabu, Seth R. Bordenstein, Wonder P. Drake
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04357-x