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Vaahtovuo J, Toivanen P, Eerola E
FEMS Microbiol Ecol . 2009 Sep; 44(1):131-6. PMID: 19719658
Abstract The gastrointestinal tract and the microbes colonizing it form a complex ecosystem that has various effects on the well-being of the host. In addition to acute infections, the composition...
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Vaahtovuo J, Munukka E, Korkeamaki M, Luukkainen R, Toivanen P
J Rheumatol . 2008 Jun; 35(8):1500-5. PMID: 18528968
Objective: To compare the composition of intestinal microbiota of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or fibromyalgia (FM), fecal samples were collected from 51 patients with RA and 50 with...
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Toivanen A, Toivanen P
Acta Reumatol Port . 2006 Oct; 31(1):39-47. PMID: 17058383
This review is concentrated on specifically diagnosable viral diseases causing recent onset polyarthritis. A suspicion of viral etiology of arthritis should arise when there are symptoms of infection such as...
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Vaahtovuo J, Korkeamaki M, Munukka E, Viljanen M, Toivanen P
J Microbiol Methods . 2005 Jun; 63(3):276-86. PMID: 15935498
Hybridization of bacteria with fluorescent probes targeting 16S rRNA and inspection of hybridized bacteria with fluorescence microscopy (microscopy-FISH, i.e. fluorescence in situ hybridization) have constituted an accessible method for the...
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Toivanen A, Toivanen P
Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol . 2004 Sep; 18(5):689-703. PMID: 15454127
Reactive arthritis is an infectious disease which may be initiated by several microbes in genetically susceptible hosts. The best known predisposing genetic factor is HLA-B27, but the mechanisms behind its...
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El-Abasy M, Motobu M, Nakamura K, Koge K, Onodera T, Vainio O, et al.
Int Immunopharmacol . 2004 Jun; 4(8):983-90. PMID: 15222973
Effects of oral administration of sugar cane extract (SCE) on immunosuppression in chickens treated with cyclophosphamide (CPA) were evaluated. Three-week-old inbred chickens were inoculated into the crop with SCE (500...
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Chen T, Rimpilainen M, Luukkainen R, Mottonen T, Yli-Jama T, Jalava J, et al.
Arthritis Rheum . 2003 Jun; 49(3):328-34. PMID: 12794787
Objective: To study the presence of bacterial components in the synovial tissue (ST) of patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: ST was collected during joint surgery from 41 RA...
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Motobu M, El-Abasy M, Na K, Vainio O, Toivanen P, Hirota Y
J Vet Med Sci . 2003 Feb; 65(1):35-42. PMID: 12576702
It has been suggested that the sympathetic nervous system communicates with lymphocytes expressing cell surface receptors for neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine (NE), on the basis of the finding that neurotransmitters...
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Chen T, Toivanen P, Vainio O
APMIS . 2002 Aug; 110(6):490-8. PMID: 12193210
It is largely unknown how bacterial cell walls (BCW) modulate human immune responses. In the present work the effect of Gram-positive BCW on lymphocyte proliferation responses towards several microbial antigens...
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Bengoechea J, Zhang L, Toivanen P, Skurnik M
Mol Microbiol . 2002 May; 44(4):1045-62. PMID: 12010497
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a glycolipid present in the outer membrane of all Gram-negative bacteria, and it is one of the signature molecules recognized by the receptors of the innate immune...