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Host and microbes in a pickle

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Metabolic disorders such as obesity are characterized by long-term, low-grade inflammation. Under certain conditions, the resident microorganisms of the gut might contribute to this inflammation, resulting in disease.

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Figure 1: Host–microbe communication in systemic inflammation.

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  1. Ping Li and Gökhan S. Hotamisligil are in the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ghotamis@hsph.harvard.edu,

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Gökhan Hotamisligil is on the scientific advisory board, is a shareholder and receives research support from Syndexa Pharmaceuticals.

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Li, P., Hotamisligil, G. Host and microbes in a pickle. Nature 464, 1287–1288 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4641287a

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