Without Adaptive Immunity, There's a Cost to Responding STAT.
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Abstract
The relative contributions of innate and adaptive immune mechanisms in responding to the intestinal microbiota during ontogeny are largely unknown. A recent study in Nature by Mao et al. (2018) elegantly dissects the role of each cell type in the intestine and further describes the metabolic cost to innate immunity.
Medical subject headings
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome