Malnutrition promotes rogue bacteria

Ana Izcue () and Fiona Powrie ()
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Ana Izcue: Ana Izcue is at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, 79108 Freiburg, Germany and the Centre of Chronic Immunodeficiency, Freiburg.
Fiona Powrie: University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK, and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford.

Nature, 2012, vol. 487, issue 7408, 437-439

Abstract: Dietary lack of a single amino acid impairs intestinal immunity in mice, altering the guts microbial community and leaving it vulnerable to damage. The finding helps to explain how malnutrition favours gut inflammation. See Letter p.477

Date: 2012
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