For very long, researchers have hypothesized that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxins shed from the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, e.g., gut-resident Bacteroides fragilis and Escherichia ...
Twelve-week-old male C57bl6/J mice (Charles River, Brussels, Belgium) and CD14 mutant male mice bred in a C57bl6 background (Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME) were housed in a controlled environment ...