About this Research Topic
The goals of this research topic are to present the highlights of the work implemented by investigators focusing on numerous environmental components, gut microbiome, mucosal barriers and immunity. Here, environmental components broadly include microbiome, food ingredients, metabolome, pollutants and chemicals, in wildlife or urban life, and at all life stages.
We are particularly interested in three aspects:
i) How environmental components modulate the gut microbiome
ii) How environmental components regulate mucosal barriers
iii) How environmental components control cytokines and chemokines production in a local milieu.
We welcome Original Research Articles, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Case Reports and Perspective articles, on any of the topics below:
- Overview on the interaction between host immunity and environmental components
- Influence of microbiome on mucosal barrier function and cytokine/chemokine production
- Modulation of intestinal homeostasis mediated by environmental components
- Influence of environmental components on development/pathogenesis of diseases
- Intervention to avoid adverse environmental impact on health and diseases.
Keywords: Microbiome, Cytokines and Chemokines, Environment, Mucosal Barrier, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Colon Cancer, Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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