"Germ-Free Life" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Animals not contaminated by or associated with any foreign organisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D005856
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.320
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| Concept/Terms |
Germ-Free Life- Germ-Free Life
- Germ Free Life
- Life, Germ-Free
- Germfree Life
- Life, Germfree
Axenic Animals- Axenic Animals
- Animal, Axenic
- Animals, Axenic
- Axenic Animal
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Germ-Free Life" by people in Profiles.
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Hathaway-Schrader JD, Aartun JD, Poulides NA, Kuhn MB, McCormick BE, Chew ME, Huang E, Darveau RP, Westwater C, Novince CM. Commensal oral microbiota induces osteoimmunomodulatory effects separate from systemic microbiome in mice. JCI Insight. 2022 02 22; 7(4).
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Wu YY, Westwater C, Xiao E, Dias Corrêa J, Xiao WM, Graves DT. Establishment of oral bacterial communities in germ-free mice and the influence of recipient age. Mol Oral Microbiol. 2018 02; 33(1):38-46.
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Westwater C, Schofield DA, Nicholas PJ, Paulling EE, Balish E. Candida glabrata and Candida albicans; dissimilar tissue tropism and infectivity in a gnotobiotic model of mucosal candidiasis. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2007 Oct; 51(1):134-9.
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Westwater C, Balish E, Warner TF, Nicholas PJ, Paulling EE, Schofield DA. Susceptibility of gnotobiotic transgenic mice (Tgepsilon26) with combined deficiencies in natural killer cells and T cells to wild-type and hyphal signalling-defective mutants of Candida albicans. J Med Microbiol. 2007 Sep; 56(Pt 9):1138-1144.
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Hallman TM, Peng M, Meade R, Hancock WW, Madaio MP, Gasser DL. The mitochondrial and kidney disease phenotypes of kd/kd mice under germfree conditions. J Autoimmun. 2006 Feb; 26(1):1-6.
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Balish E, Warner TF, Nicholas PJ, Paulling EE, Westwater C, Schofield DA. Susceptibility of germfree phagocyte oxidase- and nitric oxide synthase 2-deficient mice, defective in the production of reactive metabolites of both oxygen and nitrogen, to mucosal and systemic candidiasis of endogenous origin. Infect Immun. 2005 Mar; 73(3):1313-20.
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Schofield DA, Westwater C, Balish E. beta-defensin expression in immunocompetent and immunodeficient germ-free and Candida albicans-monoassociated mice. J Infect Dis. 2004 Oct 01; 190(7):1327-34.
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Schofield DA, Westwater C, Warner T, Nicholas PJ, Paulling EE, Balish E. Hydrolytic gene expression during oroesophageal and gastric candidiasis in immunocompetent and immunodeficient gnotobiotic mice. J Infect Dis. 2003 Aug 15; 188(4):591-9.
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Maldonado MA, Kakkanaiah V, MacDonald GC, Chen F, Reap EA, Balish E, Farkas WR, Jennette JC, Madaio MP, Kotzin BL, Cohen PL, Eisenberg RA. The role of environmental antigens in the spontaneous development of autoimmunity in MRL-lpr mice. J Immunol. 1999 Jun 01; 162(11):6322-30.
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Boissonneault GA, Giles T, Meyers PB. Effects of dietary restriction on body composition and body size in germfree and conventional Lobund-Wistar rats. Prog Clin Biol Res. 1989; 287:61-8.