Gut Microbiome and Inflammation: A Study of Diabetic Inflammasome-Knockout Mice

Aims. Diabetes is a proinflammatory state, evidenced by increased pattern recognition receptors and the inflammasome (NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain (NLRP)) complex. Recent reports have elucidated the role of the gut microbiome in diabetes, but there is limited data on the gut microbiome in N...

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Main Authors: Roma Pahwa, Miriam Balderas, Ishwarlal Jialal, Xinpu Chen, Ruth Ann Luna, Sridevi Devaraj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Diabetes Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6519785