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In command of commensals

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Humans must maintain a balanced composition for the trillions of commensal microbes that inhabit their gut, but how they do this is largely unclear. It now emerges that one factor is a molecular pathway in gut epithelial cells.

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Figure 1: The NLRP6 inflammasome — a guardian of intestinal homeostasis.

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