microflora

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"Generally, the microflora is responsible for the synthesis of vitamins and acts as protection from bad microbes."

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  1. A flora in which all the plants are of minute size; a congeries of microscopic plants: opposed to macroflora. Smithsonian Rep., 1904, p. 351.

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  • As IBD patients exhibit inflammatory responses to their commensal intestinal microflora, factors that induce translocation of commensal bacteria across the intestinal epithelium may contribute to IBD pathogenesis. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Often, a patient's microflora is also damaged by cancer treatment and they may benefit from a microflora supplement.
  • Take supplemental microflora, especially if you have been treated with antibiotics.
  • Since hyperresponsiveness against these antigens might be associated with inflammation, we studied the immune response to the indigenous intestinal microflora in peripheral blood, inflamed and non-inflamed human intestine. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In rabbits, the intestinal microflora are also required for developing the preimmune Ab repertoire by promoting somatic diversification of Ig genes in B cells that have migrated to GALT. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Greek μικρός, small, + Latin flora. See flora.
 

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