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- Title
Immunology. Therapeutic manipulation of gut flora.
- Authors
Shanahan, F
- Abstract
In developed countries as many as two individuals in every thousand suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease). In his Perspective, Shanahan discusses a new therapeutic approach to treating these conditions in which bacteria normally found in the gut are engineered to produce the anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-10 and then are fed as probiotics to mice with these disorders (Steidler et al.).
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2000, Vol 289, Issue 5483, p1311
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.289.5483.1311