An innately dangerous balancing act: intestinal homeostasis, inflammation, and colitis-associated cancer.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by dysregulated immune responses to the intestinal microbiota, and by chronic intestinal inflammation. Several recent studies demonstrate the importance of innate microbial recognition by immune and nonimmune cells in the gut. Paradoxically, either d...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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