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Gut microbiota differently contributes to intestinal immune phenotype and systemic autoimmune progression in female and male lupus-prone mice.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Mar 2020
Johnson Benjamin M, Gaudreau Marie-Claude, Gudi Radhika, Brown Robert, Gilkeson Gary, Vasu Chenthamarakshan
Abstract excerpt
The risk of developing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is about 9 times higher in women as compared to men. Our recent report, which used (SWRxNZB) F1 (SNF1) mouse model of spontaneous lupus, showed a potential link between immune response initiated in the gut mucosa at juvenile age (sex hormone independent) and SLE susceptibility. Here, using this mouse model, we show that gut microbiota contributes...
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