Bariatric surgery-induced weight loss reduces B cell activating cytokines and IgG immunoglobulins related to autoimmunity

RX Cuellar-Tamez, JR Villarreal-Calderon… - Surgical …, 2021 - Springer
Background Obesity is associated with a chronic inflammatory state and autoimmune
diseases, but little is known about the role of B cells in this context and the changes in B cell …

Defective interferon amplification and impaired host responses against influenza virus in obese mice

P Gaur, M Riehn, L Zha, M Köster, H Hauser, D Wirth - Obesity, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Obesity is a major risk factor that increases morbidity and mortality upon infection.
Although type I and type III interferon (IFN)‐induced innate immune responses represent the …

Opposing actions of developmental trichloroethylene and high-fat diet coexposure on markers of lipogenesis and inflammation in autoimmune-prone mice

SJ Blossom, L Fernandes, S Bai, S Khare… - Toxicological …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a widespread environmental pollutant associated with
immunotoxicity and autoimmune disease. Previous studies showed that mice exposed from …

Maternal dietary resistant starch does not improve piglet's gut and liver metabolism when challenged with a high fat diet

M Schroyen, J Leblois, J Uerlings, B Li, EA Sureda… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background In the past several years, the use of resistant starch (RS) as prebiotic has
extensively been studied in pigs, and this mostly in the critical period around weaning. RS is …

The impact of bariatric surgery on in-patient clinical outcomes among patients with autoimmune hepatitis

C Choi, A Barajas-Ochoa, A Uppuluri, G Ro… - Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a form of liver inflammation in which immune cells target
hepatocytes, inducing chronic inflammatory states. Bariatric surgery (BS) was shown to …