Infant intestinal Enterococcus faecalis down-regulates infl ammatory responses in human intestinal cell lines

Idiopathic infl ammatory myopathies : An update

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a heterogeneous group of disease with complex clinical features. The histological features of them usually include various degrees of degenerative changes and inflammatory (usually lymphocytic) infiltrates [1]. Histopathological evaluation is one of the key tools for the diagnosis of IIM. Because of the complexity of clinical, morphological and labor...

Analysis of differential gene-regulatory responses to zinc in human intestinal and placental cell lines.

Transcriptomic studies are useful for elucidating molecular mechanisms through which changes in nutrient availability produce pleiotropic effects on whole-body and tissue physiology. To further the knowledge of gene-regulatory effects of Zn on tissues important for adult and fetal Zn nutrition, we analysed the responses of human intestinal Caco-2 and placental JAR cells to changes in Zn supply....

Jews and Infl ammatory Bowel Diseases

Evaluating Human Intestinal Cell Lines for Studying Dietary Protein Absorption

With the global population rising, the need for sustainable and resource-efficiently produced proteins with nutritional and health promoting qualities has become urgent. Proteins are important macronutrients and are involved in most, if not all, biological processes in the human body. This review discusses these absorption mechanisms in the small intestine. To study intestinal transport and pre...

Development of the Human Infant Intestinal Microbiota

Almost immediately after a human being is born, so too is a new microbial ecosystem, one that resides in that person's gastrointestinal tract. Although it is a universal and integral part of human biology, the temporal progression of this process, the sources of the microbes that make up the ecosystem, how and why it varies from one infant to another, and how the composition of this ecosystem i...