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SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Pineiro AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4826096 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rodríguez-Piñeiro Ana M AM Johansson Malin E V ME
Gut microbes 20150101 5
The intestinal mucus is a pivotal part of our intestinal protection. It provides slow diffusion of protective molecules, trapping of luminal material as bacteria and smooth transport in the small intestine. In colon it restricts bacterial access to the epithelium limiting the responses to the enormous bacterial load present at this location. The development of these systems depends on the microbiota composition as seen in our recent study comparing the mucus phenotype in 2 colonies kept in diffe ...[more]