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Purified cell wall from the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus gasseri activates systemic inflammation and, at higher doses, produces lethality in a rat model

INTRODUCTION: One proposed benefit of probiotic therapy is that probiotic bacterial cell-wall binding to intestinal cell pathogen-recognition receptors activates protective innate immunity. However, in critically ill patients, intestinal epithelium disruption by shock or other insults may compromise...

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Autores principales: Xu, Xinhui, Hicks, Caitlin, Li, Yan, Su, Junwu, Shiloach, Joseph, Kaufman, Jeanne B, Fitz, Yvonne, Eichacker, Peter Q, Cui, Xizhong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24989885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc13966