Immunology of the gut and liver: a love/hate relationship

The gut digests, absorbs and metabolises nutrients whilst also acting as a barrier to pathogens entering from the intestinal lumen. null Not all intestinal microbes are harmful and the full development of the gut immune system is shaped by interactions with commensal bacteria in a complex interplay which allows responses to harmless bacteria and nutrients to be suppressed whilst developing protective immune response against pathogens(1;2). null...