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Research Watch | Open Access

Dirty environment for adult life: The bad, the good, the unknown

Jun Suna,b,( )
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

Peer review under responsibility of Chongqing Medical University.

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Abstract

We know the bad things of dirty environment which is associated with infectious diseases. In this Research Watch, we discuss the good and the unknown of dirty environment, based on a recent Nature paper. We emphasize the role of environment (microbiota) in the development of the human immune system in health and diseases.

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Beura LK, Hamilton SE, Bi K, et al. Normalizing the environment recapitulates adult human immune traits in laboratory mice. Nature. 2016;532(7600). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17655.

Genes & Diseases
Pages 167-168
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Sun J. Dirty environment for adult life: The bad, the good, the unknown. Genes & Diseases, 2016, 3(3): 167-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2016.07.001

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Received: 27 June 2016
Accepted: 04 July 2016
Published: 09 July 2016
© 2016 Chongqing Medical University.

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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