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Soothing intestinal sugars

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The gut is a new frontier in microbiology, offering many opportunities for innovative investigation. The finding of one such study is that intestinal inflammation in mice can be tamed by bacterial sugars.

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Figure 1: Intestinal inflammation, and how B. fragilis PSA may prevent it in mice1.

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  1. Department of Biology, Marika C. Kullberg is in the Immunology and Infection Unit, University of York, and The Hull York Medical School, PO Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK. mk512@york.ac.uk,

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