TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad
- Author
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- Wed 10 Aug 2011
- Episode Link
- http://www.microbeworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=996:twim-13-probiotics-and-inflammasomes-telling-good-bacteria-from-the-bad&catid=107:this-week-in-microbiology&Itemid=275
On episode #13 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Stanley, Jo, Michael and Elio discuss how colonic microbial ecology and risk for colitis are regulated by an inflammasome, and amelioration of intestinal inflammation in mice by delivery of a probiotic-derived soluble protein to the colon.
