Table of Contents

Volume 3, Issue 1

  January/February 2012

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EDITOR'S CORNER

Open Access Article

Letter from the Editor

Gail Hecht and Eva M. Riedmann





THE INSIDE PASSAGE

Leptin signaling protects the gut from Entamoeba histolytica infection

Gayatri Vedantam and V. K. Viswanathan





REVIEW

The role of gut microbiota in immune homeostasis and autoimmunity

Hsin-Jung Wu and Eric Wu





ARTICLE ADDENDA

Characterization of a probiotic-derived soluble protein which reveals a mechanism of preventive and treatment effects of probiotics on intestinal inflammatory diseases

Fang Yan and D. Brent Polk


Prebiotic fiber modulation of the gut microbiota improves risk factors for obesity and the metabolic syndrome

Jill Parnell and Raylene Reimer


Clostridial toxins: Sensing a target in a hostile gut environment

Numan Oezguen, Trevor D. Power, Petri Urvil, Hanping Feng, Charalabos Pothoulakis, Jonathan S. Stamler, Werner Braun and Tor C. Savidge


Systemic antibody responses to gut microbes in health and disease

Kathrin Zimmermann, Anna Haas and Annette Oxenius


Spermine oxidase, a polyamine catabolic enzyme that links Helicobacter pylori CagA and gastric cancer risk

Rupesh Chaturvedi, Thibaut de Sablet, Richard Peek and Keith Wilson


Effect of prebiotics on the human gut microbiota of elderly persons

Ruth Toward, Samantha Montandon, Gemma Walton and Glenn R. Gibson





RESEARCH PAPER

Characterization of Lactobacillus gasseri isolates from a breast-fed infant

Luciana Rodrigues da Cunha, Célia L.L. Fortes Ferreira, Evelyn Durmaz, Yong Jun Goh, Rosemary Sanozky-Dawes and Todd Klaenhammer