{"id":226929,"date":"2025-12-11T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-bacterial-toxin-disarms-gut-defenses-against-inflammation"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:14:36","slug":"a-bacterial-toxin-disarms-gut-defenses-against-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-bacterial-toxin-disarms-gut-defenses-against-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-bacterial-toxin-disarms-gut-defenses-against-inflammation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A toxin-secreting gut bacterium may fuel ulcerative colitis by killing protective immune cells that maintain intestinal homeostasis, according to a new study in <i>Science<\/i>. The findings suggest potential for new treatment strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in a new <i>Science<\/i> Perspective.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Macrophage-toxic bacteria from patients with ulcerative colitis worsen gut inflammation in mice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aec7924#con1\"> Sonia Modilevsky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aec7924#con2\"> Shai Bel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aec7924#tab-contributors\">Authors Info &amp; Affiliations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Science<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Vol 390, Issue 6775<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-bacterial-toxin-disarms-gut-defenses-against-inflammation\">Continue reading \u201cA bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A toxin-secreting gut bacterium may fuel ulcerative colitis by killing protective immune cells that maintain intestinal homeostasis, according to a new study in Science. The findings suggest potential for new treatment strategies. Learn more in a new Science Perspective. Macrophage-toxic bacteria from patients with ulcerative colitis worsen gut inflammation in mice. Sonia Modilevsky and Shai [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}