You and Your Microbiome: Is This Why I’m Allergic to Peanuts? (audio)
Update: 2015-05-21
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How do intestinal immune cells distinguish the trillions of normal, endogenous bacteria in the gut from pathogenic ones. How do normally harmless external dietary substances sometimes elicit a potentially life-threatening immune response in an individual?
Pathologist Cathryn Nagler’s laboratory at the University of Chicago is pursuing several complementary lines of research aimed at examining these questions. She studies non-responsiveness to these stimuli in healthy individuals and the harmful responses in individuals with food allergies or inflammatory bowel disease.
How do intestinal immune cells distinguish the trillions of normal, endogenous bacteria in the gut from pathogenic ones. How do normally harmless external dietary substances sometimes elicit a potentially life-threatening immune response in an individual?
Pathologist Cathryn Nagler’s laboratory at the University of Chicago is pursuing several complementary lines of research aimed at examining these questions. She studies non-responsiveness to these stimuli in healthy individuals and the harmful responses in individuals with food allergies or inflammatory bowel disease.
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