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Gut microbiota from multiple sclerosis patients enables spontaneous autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice
11 Sept 2017
Abstract excerpt
, an organism shown to induce a protective immunoregulatory profile in vitro. Immune cells from mouse recipients of MS-twin samples produced less IL-10 than immune cells from mice colonized with healthy-twin samples. IL-10 may have a regulatory role in spontaneous CNS autoimmunity, as neutralization of the cytokine in mice colonized with healthy-twin fecal samples increased disease incidence. These findings...
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