{"id":2818,"date":"2014-08-19T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:25:32","slug":"how-gut-bacteria-train-our-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-gut-bacteria-train-our-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"How gut bacteria train our immune system<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study helps shed light on which beneficial bacteria are needed to help train our immune system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Newborn mice were treated with vancomycin or streptomycin, two antibiotics that each kill certain species of gut bacteria but leave others relatively unaffected. Those treated with streptomycin were much more likely to develop a lung condition that results from being hypersensitive to environmental triggers in dust and mould. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The results suggest that certain strains of gut bacteria are required to \u201ctrain\u201d the immune system how to deal with foreign substances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacionline.org\/article\/S0091-6749%2814%2900893-8\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0the <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>August 18, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kelly McNagny, University of British Columbia,\u00a0British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brett Finlay, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study helps shed light on which beneficial bacteria are needed to help train our immune system. Newborn mice were treated with vancomycin or streptomycin, two antibiotics that each kill certain species of gut bacteria but leave others relatively unaffected. Those treated with streptomycin were much more likely to develop a lung condition that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1544,125,51,53],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-bacteria","tag-british-columbia","tag-health","tag-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}