Colons or semi-colons: punctuating the regional variation of intestinal microbial-immune interactions

Rebecca N Culver¹, Sean P Spencer^{2

3}, Kerwyn Casey Huang^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Division of Gastroenterology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. kchuang@stanford.edu.
⁵ Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. kchuang@stanford.edu.

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Rebecca N Culver et al. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;17(6):319-320.

doi: 10.1038/s41575-020-0302-z.

Rebecca N Culver¹, Sean P Spencer^{2

3}, Kerwyn Casey Huang^{4

5}

¹ Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Division of Gastroenterology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. kchuang@stanford.edu.
⁵ Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. kchuang@stanford.edu.

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Distinct microbial and immune niches of the human colon.
James KR, Gomes T, Elmentaite R, Kumar N, Gulliver EL, King HW, Stares MD, Bareham BR, Ferdinand JR, Petrova VN, Polański K, Forster SC, Jarvis LB, Suchanek O, Howlett S, James LK, Jones JL, Meyer KB, Clatworthy MR, Saeb-Parsy K, Lawley TD, Teichmann SA. James KR, et al. Nat Immunol. 2020 Mar;21(3):343-353. doi: 10.1038/s41590-020-0602-z. Epub 2020 Feb 17. Nat Immunol. 2020. PMID: 32066951 Free PMC article.

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