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    Butyrate-producing bacteria supplemented in vitro to Crohn’s disease patient microbiota increased butyrate production and enhanced intestinal epithelial barrier integrity

    The management of the dysbiosed gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is gaining more attention as a novel target to control this disease. Probiotic treatment with butyrate-producing bacteria has...

    Annelies Geirnaert, Marta Calatayud, Charlotte Grootaert in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    T84 monolayers are superior to Caco-2 as a model system of colonocytes

    Colonic adenocarcinoma-derived Caco-2 and T84 epithelial cell lines are frequently used as in vitro model systems of functional epithelial barriers. Both are utilised interchangeably despite evidence that diff...

    Sarah Devriese, Lien Van den Bossche, Sophie Van Welden in Histochemistry and Cell Biology (2017)