Abstracts tagged "cytokines and T cells"

Abstract Number: 2042 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Intestinal Microbiota Alters Th1/Th17 Balance but Is Dispensable for the Development of Systemic Autoimmune Disease in BXD2 Mice
Huixian Hong¹, Qi Wu ¹, PingAr Yang ¹, Bao Luo ², Alex Essman ², Oluwagbemiga Ojo ², Michael R. Crowley ³, David K. Crossman ³, Casey D. Morrow ⁴, Jeremy B. Foote ⁵, Trenton R. Schoeb ⁶, Charles O. Elson ⁷, Hui-Chen Hsu ⁸ and John D. Mountz ⁹, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ³Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁴Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁵Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁶Department of Genetics, Animal Resources Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁷Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁸1Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham & University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham VA Medical center, Birmingham
Background/Purpose: Intestinal microbiota dysbiosis has been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease. How the microbiota affects the peripheral immune system leading to the development…