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| [16] | M cell maturation and cDC activation determine the onset of adaptive immune priming in the neonatal Peyer’s patch (Torow, Natalia, Li, Ronghui, Hitch, Thomas C. A., Mingels, Clemens, Al Bounny, Shahed, van Best, Niels, Stange, Eva-Lena, Simons, Britta, Maié, Tiago, Rüttger, Lennart, Gubbi, Narasimha Murthy Keshava Prasad, Abbott, Darryl Adelaide, Benabid, Adam, Gadermayr, Michael, Runge, Solveig, Treichel, Nicole, Merhof, Dorit, Rosshart, Stephan Patrick, Jehmlich, Nico, Hand, Timothy Wesley, von Bergen, Martin, Heymann, Felix, Pabst, Oliver, Clavel, Thomas, Tacke, Frank, Lelouard, Hugues, Costa, Ivan G. and Hornef, Mathias W.), In Immunity, Elsevier, volume 56, 2023, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
| [15] | Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities (Afrizal, Afrizal, Jennings, Susan A. V., Hitch, Thomas C. A., Riedel, Thomas, Basic, Marijana, Panyot, Atscharah, Treichel, Nicole, Hager, Fabian Tobias, Wong, Erin Oi-Yan, Wolter, Birger, Viehof, Alina, von Strempel, Alexandra, Eberl, Claudia, Buhl, Eva Miriam, Abt, Birte, Bleich, André, Tolba, René H., Blank, Lars Mathias, Navarre, William W., Kießling, Fabian, Horz, Hans-Peter, Torow, Natalia, Cerovic, Vuk, Stecher, Bärbel, Strowig, Till, Overmann, Jörg and Clavel, Thomas), In Cell host and microbe, Elsevier, volume 30, 2022, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
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| [11] | Microbiome-based interventions to modulate gut ecology and the immune system (Hitch, Thomas C. A., Hall, Lindsay J., Walsh, Sarah Kate, Leventhal, Gabriel E., Slack, Emma, de Wouters, Tomas, Walter, Jens and Clavel, Thomas), In Mucosal immunology, Nature Publishing Group, volume 15, 2022, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
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| [9] | Upregulation of anti-oxidative stress response improves metabolic changes in l-selectin-deficient mice but does not prevent NAFLD progression or fecal microbiota shifts (Eswaran, Sreepradha, Babbar, Anshu, Drescher, Hannah K., Hitch, Thomas C. A., Clavel, Thomas, Muschaweck, Moritz, Ritz, Thomas, Kroy, Daniela C., Trautwein, Christian, Wagner, Norbert and Schippers, Angela), In International journal of molecular sciences, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, volume 22, 2021, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
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| [6] | A diet-specific microbiota drives Salmonella Typhimurium to adapt its in vivo response to plant-derived substrates (Prax, Nicoletta, Wagner, Stefanie, Schardt, Jakob, Neuhaus, Klaus, Clavel, Thomas and Fuchs, Thilo M.), In Animal microbiome, BioMed Central, volume 3, 2021, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
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| [4] | The gut bacterium Extibacter muris produces secondary bile acids and influences liver physiology in gnotobiotic mice (Streidl, Theresa, Karkossa, Isabel, Segura Muñoz, Rafael R., Eberl, Claudia, Zaufel, Alex, Plagge, Johannes, Schmaltz, Robert, Schubert, Kristin, Basic, Marijana, Schneider, Kai Markus, Afify, Mamdouh, Trautwein, Christian, Tolba, René H., Stecher, Bärbel, Doden, Heidi L., Ridlon, Jason M., Ecker, Josef, Moustafa, Tarek, von Bergen, Martin, Ramer-Tait, Amanda E. and Clavel, Thomas), In Gut microbes, Landes Bioscience, volume 13, 2021, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
| [3] | High microbiota reactivity of adult human intestinal IgA requires somatic mutations (Kabbert, Johanna, Benckert, Julia, Rollenske, Tim, Hitch, Thomas C. A., Clavel, Thomas, Cerovic, Vuk, Wardemann, Hedda and Pabst, Oliver), In Journal of experimental medicine, Rockefeller Univ. Press, volume 217, 2020, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
| [2] | An Integrated Metagenome Catalog Reveals New Insights into the Murine Gut Microbiome (Lesker, Till R., Durairaj, Abilash C., Gálvez, Eric J. C., Lagkouvardos, Ilias, Baines, John F., Clavel, Thomas, Sczyrba, Alexander, McHardy, Alice C. and Strowig, Till), In Cell reports, Elsevier, volume 30, 2020, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |
| [1] | The Compromised Mucosal Immune System of β7 Integrin-Deficient Mice Has Only Minor Effects on the Fecal Microbiota in Homeostasis (Babbar, Anshu, Hitch, Thomas C. A., Pabst, Oliver, Clavel, Thomas, Hübel, Jessica, Eswaran, Sreepradha, Wagner, Norbert and Schippers, Angela), In Frontiers in microbiology, Frontiers Media, volume 10, 2019, SFB 1382: Die Darm-Leber-Achse – Funktionelle Zusammenhänge und therapeutische Strategien (403224013). |