Yale School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Section of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, New Haven, CT, USA.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2021 Dec 1;60(12):5498-5508. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab262.
As our understanding of the genetic underpinnings of SSc increases, questions regarding the environmental trigger(s) that induce and propagate SSc in the genetically predisposed individual emerge. The interplay between the environment, the immune system, and the microbial species that inhabit the patient's skin and gastrointestinal tract is a pathobiological frontier that is largely unexplored in SSc. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the methodologies, experimental study results and future roadmap for elucidating the relationship between the SSc host and his/her microbiome.
随着我们对 SSc 的遗传基础的理解不断增加,出现了关于在遗传易感性个体中诱导和传播 SSc 的环境触发因素的问题。环境、免疫系统以及居住在患者皮肤和胃肠道中的微生物物种之间的相互作用是一个在 SSc 中基本上尚未探索的病理生物学前沿。本文的目的是提供一种方法学概述,介绍阐明 SSc 宿主与其微生物组之间关系的实验研究结果和未来路线图。