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• International Team of Scientists Proved How Intestinal Microbiota Can Affect the Flu

  An International team of scientists from Washington University School of Medicine (USA) and ITMO University proved experimentally that intestinal microbiota in mice can influence the body’s immune response to the flu. Metabolites, which are formed in our gut, stimulate the increase of interferon which is a protein responsible for suppressing the virus’s replication. The results of the research are published in Science magazine

  04.08.2017