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Guts and glory: balancing microbes and the immune response
1Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 5115 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Developmental Cell
|December 29, 2004
Abstract:
Maintaining balance with intestinal flora is an important activity of the immune system in higher metazoans. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Ha et al. demonstrate a central role of a redox balance in microbial interactions in the fruit fly gut.