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Bugs & us: the role of the gut in autoimmunity.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Nov 2013
Luckey David, Gomez Andres, Murray Joseph, White Bryan, Taneja Veena
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a multifactorial disease and requires interaction between genetic and environmental factors for predisposition. The presence of bacterial DNA of the gut residing commensals in synovium as well as dysbiosis of certain commensal bacteria in faecal samples of RA patients as compared to controls suggest a significant role of the gut flora in pathogenesis of RA. The gut commensals are...
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