Background: Glycohemoglobin (gHb), measured as hemoglobin (Hb) A 1c or as total gHb,
provides a common means for assessing long-term glycemic control in individuals with …

… Conventionalization of germfree mice also results in transcriptional activation of a host
GDP-L-fucose:- D-galactoside 2--L-fucosyltransferase gene in the ileum.Remarkably, a single …

… We examined whether the bacteria's ability to metabolize L-… of Tn4351 rendering it unllable
to use L-fucose or D-arabinose … organism's abilitv to take up 3H]L-fucose or to colonize and …

The gut microbiome plays an important role in immune function and has been implicated in
several autoimmune disorders. Here we use 16S rRNA sequencing to investigate the gut …

… l The complexity of the gut microflora in mice raised under conventional … l The ability of
components … Thy-l expression and the cytolytic activity of intraepithelial lymphocytes are induced …

Disruption of homeostasis between the host immune system and the intestinal microbiota
leads to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Whether IBD is instigated by individual species or …

The host gut microbiota varies across species and individuals but is relatively stable over
time within an individual. How the host selectively shapes the microbiota is largely unclear. …

… for 3 d in granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor (300 U/ml; Sargramostim; Immunex)
and IL-4 (200 U/ml; PeproTech) in complete RPMI medium (RPMI supplemented with L-…

… negatively correlated with OTU 323257 (L. gasseri). Consistent with the group-wise analysis
across all mouse strains on both CD and HFD (Figure 6B), L. gasseri was strongly positively …

Peripheral mechanisms preventing autoimmunity and maintaining tolerance to commensal
microbiota involve CD4 + Foxp3 + regulatory T (T reg ) cells 1 , 2 generated in the thymus or …