{"id":12559,"date":"2014-08-29T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2014-09-22T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:09:37","slug":"bacteria-in-digestive-system-may-prevent-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/bacteria-in-digestive-system-may-prevent-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria in Digestive System may Prevent Allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bacterias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bacterias.jpg\" alt=\"bacterias\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><strong>Bacteria that naturally live inside our digestive system can help prevent allergies<\/strong> and may become a source of treatment for these conditions, say US researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The team at the University of Chicago showed a group of <strong>bacteria from the genus Clostridium that live in the intestine could block peanut allergies in mice<\/strong>. The research group conducted experiments with mice bred in perfectly sterile environments and which had no bacteria in their gut. These animals had a strong immune response to peanuts; allergy that in the case of humans can be fatal in some people.<\/p>\n<p>The team then investigated whether the addition of various bacteria in the digestive tract of animals would have any effect.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Dr Cathryn Nagler told the BBC News website:<em> \u201cThe first step is for an allergen to gain access to the blood stream, the presence of Clostridia prevents the allergens getting into the bloodstream.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is expected that <strong>the use of \u00a0bacteria may assist with desensitization therapy<\/strong>; which involves giving patients small doses of the substance, causing an allergic reaction until the immune system gets used to it.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the findings, Prof Colin Hill, a microbiologist at University College Cork, told the BBC: <em>&#8220;This is really interesting. [\u2026]This paper identifies a group of bacteria which could be important in protecting against these prevalent diseases. [\u2026]While we have to be careful not to extrapolate too far from a single study, and we also have to bear in mind that germ-free mice are a long way from humans, it is a very exciting paper and puts this theory on a much sounder scientific basis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Through:<\/strong> <em>BBC News website<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria that naturally live inside our digestive system can help prevent allergies and may become a source of treatment for these conditions, say US researchers. The team at the University of Chicago showed a group of bacteria from the genus Clostridium that live in the intestine could block peanut allergies in mice. The research group &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}