Role of Lactobacillus pentosus Strain b240 and the Toll-Like Receptor 2 Axis in Peyer's Patch Dendritic Cell-Mediated Immunoglobulin A Enhancement

• Yoshifumi Kotani,

  Affiliations Otsu Nutraceuticals Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shiga, Japan, Division of Mucosal Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Laboratory of Vaccine Materials, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Osaka, Japan

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• Jun Kunisawa ,

  * E-mail: kunisawa@nibio.go.jp (JK); Kohda.Noriyuki@otsuka.jp (NK); kiyono@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HK)

  Affiliations Division of Mucosal Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, International Research and Development Center for Mucosal Vaccines, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan, Laboratory of Vaccine Materials, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Osaka, Japan

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• Yuji Suzuki,

  Affiliation Division of Mucosal Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ikutaro Sato,

  Affiliation Otsu Nutraceuticals Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shiga, Japan

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• Takao Saito,

  Affiliation Otsu Nutraceuticals Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shiga, Japan

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• Masamichi Toba,

  Affiliation Otsu Nutraceuticals Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shiga, Japan

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• Noriyuki Kohda ,

  * E-mail: kunisawa@nibio.go.jp (JK); Kohda.Noriyuki@otsuka.jp (NK); kiyono@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HK)

  Affiliation Otsu Nutraceuticals Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shiga, Japan

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• Hiroshi Kiyono

  * E-mail: kunisawa@nibio.go.jp (JK); Kohda.Noriyuki@otsuka.jp (NK); kiyono@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HK)

  Affiliations Division of Mucosal Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, International Research and Development Center for Mucosal Vaccines, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Medical Genome Science, Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan

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