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Create a free account or log inIs the gut an Immune organ?
Gut microbiota, Gut epithelium, Gut mucosal immunity, could the Gut be considered as part of our immune system? Let’s discover it with Prof. Francisco Guarner, Professor of gastroenterology at University Hospital Vall D’hebron (Barcelona, Spain) who will give a lecture on the essential collaboration between immunity and gut microbiota as well as on their perturbations and their health consequences.
Is the gut an immune organ?
Gut microbiota, Gut epithelium, Gut mucosal immunity, could the Gut be considered as part of our immune system? Let’s discover it with Prof. Francisco Guarner, Professor of gastroenterology at University Hospital Vall D’hebron (Barcelona, Spain) who will give a lecture on the essential collaboration between immunity and gut microbiota as well as on their perturbations and their health consequences.
Program
Colonizing the gut from birth and maybe even before, gut microbes start a creative dialogue with human cells. Interactions with epithelial cells play a decisive role for gut structure development via innate and adaptive immune mechanisms.
These interactions build every day myriads of responses of oral tolerance and immune exclusion, and strengthen our health.
Prof. Francisco Guarner, Professor of gastroenterology at University Hospital Vall D’hebron (Barcelona, Spain) will give a lecture on this essential collaboration between immunity and gut microbiota as well as on their perturbations. Indeed, antibiotics or infectious diseases may cause dysbiosis of our gut microbiota and therefore lead to inflammation and a broad range of diseases.
Prof. Guarner will finally discuss about the use of probiotics in order to protect and maintain our gastrointestinal immunity in a healthy and dynamic state.
About the speakers
Prof. Francisco Guarner
Consultant of gastroenterology, Centro Médico Teknon (Barcelona, Spain)
Prof. Francisco Guarner is Consultant of Gastroenterology at the University Hospital Vall d’Hebron and Senior Researcher at the Digestive System Research Unit at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain. Prof. Guarner also serves as a member of the ‘Guidelines & Publications Committee’ of the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO), Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Human Microbiome Consortium and member of the Scientific Committee of Gut Microbiota for Health Section of the European Society of Neurogastroenterology & Motility.
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