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Two immune arms to stop one gut

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Postoperative ileus complicates the recovery from intestinal surgery with a great economic burden. How this morbid condition spreads throughout the entire gut remains unknown, but new findings show that a T helper type 1 (TH1)-mediated immune response is involved. Its components may be possible therapeutic targets (pages 1407–1413).

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Figure 1: Proposed pathway of memory TH1 cell dissemination of postoperative ileus (POI).

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