title: Guts and glory: balancing microbes and the immune response.
abstract: Maintaining balance with intestinal flora is an important activity of the immune system in higher metazoans. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Ha et al. demonstrate a central role of a redox balance in microbial interactions in the fruit fly gut.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 5115 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Subhamoy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pal
authors.forename: Louisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000276:immunology*; D002374:Catalase / Q000502:physiology; D004330:Drosophila; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D007109:Immunity; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D002374:Catalase