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SUBMITTER: Kim DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6043689 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Da Som DS Kwon Jeong-Eun JE Lee Seung Hoon SH Kim Eun Kyung EK Ryu Jun-Geol JG Jung Kyung-Ah KA Choi Jeong-Won JW Park Min-Jung MJ Moon Young-Mee YM Park Sung-Hwan SH Cho Mi-La ML Kwok Seung-Ki SK
Frontiers in immunology 20180706
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease caused by both genetic and environmental factors. Recently, investigators have focused on the gut microbiota, which is thought to be an environmental factor that affects the development of RA. Metabolites secreted by the gut microbiota maintain homeostasis in the gut through various mechanisms [e.g., butyrate, which is one of the major metabolites of gut microbiota, exerts an anti-inflammatory effect by activating G-protein-coupled recep ...[more]