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TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad
TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On episode #13 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Stanley, Jo, Michael and Elio discuss how colonic microbial ecology and risk for colitis are regulated by an inflammasome, and amelioration of intestinal inflammation in mice by delivery of a probiotic-derived soluble protein to the colon.
Released:
Aug 10, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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