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Enteric defensins are essential regulators of intestinal microbial ecology

Abstract

Defensins combat pathogenic bacteria invading the mammalian intestine. Salzman and co-workers find that defensins influence the composition of the small intestinal commensal microbiota and the presence of interleukin 17–producing T cells in the lamina propria.

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