The lactic acid bacterium Pediococcus acidilactici suppresses autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inducing IL-10-producing regulatory T cells.

BACKGROUND: Certain intestinal microflora are thought to regulate the systemic immune response. Lactic acid bacteria are one of the most studied bacteria in terms of their beneficial effects on health and autoimmune diseases; one of which is Multiple sclerosis (MS) which affects the central nervous...

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Main Authors: Kazushiro Takata, Makoto Kinoshita, Tatsusada Okuno, Masayuki Moriya, Tohru Kohda, Josephe A Honorat, Tomoyuki Sugimoto, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Hisako Kayama, Kiyoshi Takeda, Saburo Sakoda, Yuji Nakatsuji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3217013?pdf=render