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Sex differences in the gut microbiome drive hormone-dependent regulation of autoimmunity

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A diet rich in fermentable fiber promotes robust changes in the intestinal microbiota, mitigates intestinal permeability, and attenuates autoimmune uveitis

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Gut Microbes and Eye Disease

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Microbiome in Immune-Mediated Uveitis

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Exploring the Effect of the Gut Microbiome on the Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration From the Perspective of Causality

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Regulation of Autoimmunity by the Microbiome

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Gut Microbiota-Immune System Interactions in Health and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Insights into Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications

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Intestinal Epithelial Cell Regulation of Adaptive Immune Dysfunction in Human Type 1 Diabetes

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Features of ectopic lymphoid-like structures in human uveitis

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Diseases of the Uvea, Uveitis, and Recurrent Uveitis

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NRP1 instructs IL-17-producing ILC3s to drive colitis progression

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A Destabilizing Domain Allows for Fast, Noninvasive, Conditional Control of Protein Abundance in the Mouse Eye – Implications for Ocular Gene Therapy

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The Gut Brain-Axis in Neurological Diseases

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Ocular microbiota promotes pathological angiogenesis and inflammation in sterile injury-driven corneal neovascularization

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Diet-induced obesity leads to pro-inflammatory alterations to the vitreous humour of the eye in a rat model

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as a protein level, non-genomic disease: Therapy with S2RM exosome released molecules

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Th17 Response in Uveitis: A Double-Edged Sword in Ocular Inflammation and Immune Regulation

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Ocular immune privilege in action: The living eye imposes unique regulatory and anergic gene signatures on uveitogenic T cells

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Non-antibiotic Small-Molecule Regulation of DHFR-Based Destabilizing Domains In Vivo

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Gut Microbiomics—A Solution to Unloose the Gordian Knot of Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation

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Uncovering the role of the gut microbiota in immune checkpoint blockade therapy: A mini-review

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Evolving concepts of host–pathobiont interactions in autoimmunity

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Dinutuximab Synergistically Enhances the Cytotoxicity of Natural Killer Cells to Retinoblastoma Through the Perforin-Granzyme B Pathway

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Critical Role of Intestinal Microbiota in ATF3-Mediated Gut Immune Homeostasis

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Is Autoimmunity Infectious? The Effect of Gastrointestinal Viral Infections and Vaccination on Risk of Celiac Disease Autoimmunity

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Characterization of Conjunctival Sac Microbiome from Patients with Allergic Conjunctivitis

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Oral exposure to bisphenol A exacerbates allergic inflammation in a mouse model of food allergy

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Transcriptome network analysis implicates CX3CR1-positive type 3 dendritic cells in non-infectious uveitis

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Altered Gut Microbiota Activate and Expand Insulin B15-23–Reactive CD8+ T Cells

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Atopobiosis and Dysbiosis in Ocular Diseases: Is Fecal Microbiota Transplant and Probiotics a Promising Solution?

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Regulation of autoimmune myocarditis by host responses to the microbiome

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Epigenetic Treatment of Neurodegenerative Ophthalmic Disorders: An Eye Toward the Future

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A novel role for lipoxin A4 in driving a lymph node–eye axis that controls autoimmunity to the neuroretina

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Regulatory T Cells: Therapeutic Opportunities in Uveitis

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The Microbiome and Uveitis

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Ophthalmological Manifestations in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Keep an Eye on It

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Gastro-intestinal tract: The leading role of mucosal immunity

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Immunological Insights in Equine Recurrent Uveitis

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Mechanisms of tolerance and potential therapeutic interventions in Alopecia Areata

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Autoimmune diabetes mellitus and the leaky gut

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Gut microbiota and eye diseases: A review

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Mucosal-associated invariant T cells have therapeutic potential against ocular autoimmunity

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Autoimmunity: Are we asking the right question?

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Immune-Mediated Uveitis and Lifestyle Factors: A Review

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Quantitative Assessment of Experimental Ocular Inflammatory Disease

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Fecal Microbial Profiles and Short-Chain Fatty Acid/Bile Acid Metabolomics in Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Pilot Study

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Breach and restoration of retinal immune privilege: barrier failure, innate dysregulation, and adaptive autoimmunity

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Clinical trials targeting the gut-microbiome to effect ocular health: a systematic review

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Identification of unique proteins in vitreous fluid of patients with noninfectious uveitis

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Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, nitroxidative stress and dysbiosis: What is the link between them?

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High Throughput RNA Sequencing of Germ-Free Mouse Retina Reveals Metabolic Pathways Involved in the Gut-Retina AxisPreprint

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Microbiome signatures and their role in uveitis: Pathogenesis, diagnostics, and therapeutic perspectives

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Spontaneous Ocular Autoimmunity in Mice Expressing a Transgenic T Cell Receptor Specific to Retina: A Tool to Dissect Mechanisms of Uveitis

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Exploring the role of programmed cell death protein 1 and its ligand 1 in eye diseases

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CD8+ T cells reduce neuroretina inflammation in mouse by regulating autoreactive Th1 and Th17 cells through IFN‐γ

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RAGs and BUGS: An alliance for autoimmunity

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Modulation of autoimmune arthritis by environmental ‘hygiene’ and commensal microbiota

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Too Much of a Good Thing: Extended Duration of Gut Microbiota Depletion Reverses Protection From Experimental Autoimmune Uveitis

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Ocular Manifestations of IBD: Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, and Iatrogenic Associations of Emerging Treatment Strategies

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Gut Barrier, Microbial Metabolites, and Immune Homeostasis in Autoimmune Hepatitis: From Molecular Mechanisms to Strategies

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Parabiosis reveals the correlation between the recruitment of circulating antigen presenting cells to the retina and the induction of spontaneous autoimmune uveoretinitis

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Cross-talk between T-cells and gut-microbiota in neurodegenerative disorders

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Multifunctional Interleukin-24 Resolves Neuroretina Autoimmunity via Diverse Mechanisms

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Adjuvant Injections Altered the Ileal and Fecal Microbiota Differently with Changes in Immunoglobulin Isotypes and Antimycobacterial Antibody Responses

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The Ocular Microbiome: Micro-Steps Towards Macro-Shift in Targeted Treatment? A Comprehensive Review

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Animal Models of Ocular Tuberculosis: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment

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Gut flora connects obesity with pathological angiogenesis in the eye

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Gut Microbiota Functional Biomolecules With Immune-Lipid Metabolism for a Prognostic Compound Score in Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A Pilot Study

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Compositional variation in eye-infiltrating immune cells distinguishes human uveitis subtypes

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Gut-eye axis in ophthalmic diseases: Focus on ocular neurodegeneration

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Biology of HLA class I associated inflammatory diseases

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Gut microbiota linked to autoimmune uveitis

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Intestinal Permeability and Circulating CD161+CCR6+CD8+T Cells in Patients With Relapsing–Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Treated With Dimethylfumarate

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Heterochronic Fecal Microbiota Transfer Reverses Hallmarks of the Aging Murine Gut, Eye and BrainPreprint

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Tracking the role of Aire in immune tolerance to the eye with a TCR transgenic mouse model

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Neonatal gut microbiota profile and the association with retinopathy of prematurity in preterm infants

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Intestinal mucosal immunity and type 1 diabetes: Non‐negligible communication between gut and pancreas

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Interacting roles of gut microbiota and T cells in the development of autoimmune hepatitis

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