Intestinal Immune System

Download or read book Intestinal Immune System written by Soichiro Miura and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These negative regulatory mechanisms of the intestinal immune system are disturbed in certain disease conditions, causing the immunocompetent cells to respond to food components and commensal bacteria by becoming activated and to overproduce inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. These disease conditions include food allergies, such as celiac disease, and the inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, although their exact etiological mechanisms remain to be revealed. --Book Jacket.