Propionate-producing bacteria in the intestine may associate with skewed responses of IL10-producing regulatory T cells in patients with relapsing polychondritis

• Jun Shimizu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Takao Kubota,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, Department of Medicine, the Japan Self Defense Forces Central Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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• Erika Takada,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Kenji Takai,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Naruyoshi Fujiwara,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Nagisa Arimitsu,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Masanori A. Murayama,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Yuji Ueda,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Sueshige Wakisaka,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Tomoko Suzuki,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Noboru Suzuki

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: n3suzuki@marianna-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7090-7415

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