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Maintaining immune homeostasis in fly gut.

Nature Immunology (impact factor: 26.01). 10/2009; 10(9):936-8. DOI:10.1038/ni0909-936 pp.936-8
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ABSTRACT Like every metazoan species hosting a gut flora, drosophila tolerate commensal microbiota yet remain able to mount an efficient immune response to food-borne pathogens. New findings explain how the quantity of reactive oxygen species in the gut is 'tuned' to microbial burden and how intestinal immune homeostasis is thereby maintained

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