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Serrano Matos Y.A., Cano J., Shafiq H., Williams C., Sunny J., Cowardin C.A. (2024). Colonization during a key developmental window reveals microbiota-dependent shifts in growth and immunity during undernutrition. Microbiome. PMCID: PMC10350093

Serrano Matos, Y.A., Cowardin, C.A. (2023). Growing up: a NOD2 our microbes. Cell Host Microbe. PMID: 37167948.

Cowardin, C.A., Syed, S., Iqbal, N., Jamil, Z., Sadiq, K., Iqbal, J., Ali, S.A., Moore, S.R. (2022) Environmental enteric dysfunction: gut and microbiota adaptation in pregnancy and infancy. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology. PMCID: PMC10065936.

Lawenuis L., Cowardin C.A., Grahnemo, L., Scheffler, J.M., Gustafsson, K.L., Engdahl, C., Wu, J.Y., Vandenput, L., Islander, U., Gordon, J.I., Sjögren, K., Ohlsson, C. (2023). Transplantation of gut microbiota from old mice into young healthy mice reduces lean mass but not bone mass. Gut Microbes. PMCID: PMC10364652.

Barratt, M.J., Nuzhat, S.., Ahsan, K, Frese, S.A., Arzamasov, A.A., Sarker, S.A., Islam, M.M., Palit, P., Islam, M.R., Hibberd, M.C., Nakshatri, S., Cowardin, C.A., Guruge, J.L., et al. (2022). Bifidobacterium Infantis Treatment Promotes Weight Gain in Bangladeshi Infants with Severe Acute Malnutrition. Sci Transl Med 2022, 14 (640), eabk1107. PMCID: PMC9516695

Gehrig, J.L., Venkatesh, S., Chang, H.-W., Hibberd, M.C., Kung, V.L., Cheng, J., Chen, R.Y., Subramanian, S., Cowardin, C.A., Meier, M.F., et al. (2019). Effects of microbiota-directed foods in gnotobiotic animals and undernourished children. Science 365, eaau4732. PMCID: PMC6683325

Cowardin, C.A., Ahern, P.P., Kung, V.L., Hibberd, M.C., Cheng, J., Guruge, J.L., Sundaresan, V., Head, R.D., Barile, D., Mills, D.A., et al. (2019). Mechanisms by which sialylated milk oligosaccharides impact bone biology in a gnotobiotic mouse model of infant undernutrition. PNAS 116, 11988–11996. PMCID: PMC6575181

Frisbee, A.L., Saleh, M.M., Young, M.K., Leslie, J.L., Simpson, M.E., Abhyankar, M.M., Cowardin, C.A., Ma, J.Z., Pramoonjago, P., Turner, S.D., et al. (2019). IL-33 drives group 2 innate lymphoid cell-mediated protection during Clostridium difficile infection. Nat Commun 10, 2712. PMCID: PMC6586630

Saleh, M.M., Frisbee, A.L., Leslie, J.L., Buonomo, E.L., Cowardin, C.A., Ma, J.Z., Simpson, M.E., Scully, K.W., Abhyankar, M.M., and Petri, W.A. (2019). Colitis-Induced Th17 Cells Increase the Risk for Severe Subsequent Clostridium difficile Infection. Cell Host & Microbe 25, 756-765.e5. PMCID: PMC6509008

Noor, Z., Watanabe, K., Abhyankar, M.M., Burgess, S.L., Buonomo, E.L., Cowardin, C.A., and Petri, W.A. (2017). Role of Eosinophils and Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha in Interleukin-25-Mediated Protection from Amebic Colitis. MBio 8, e02329-16. PMCID: PMC5347349

Cowardin, C.A., Buonomo, E.L., Saleh, M.M., Wilson, M.G., Burgess, S.L., Kuehne, S.A., Schwan, C., Eichhoff, A.M., Koch-Nolte, F., Lyras, D., et al. (2016). The binary toxin CDT enhances Clostridium difficile virulence by suppressing protective colonic eosinophilia. Nature Microbiology 1, 16108. PMCID: PMC5010011

Cowardin, C.A., Jackman, B.M., Noor, Z., Burgess, S.L., Feig, A.L., and Petri, W.A. (2016). Glucosylation Drives the Innate Inflammatory Response to Clostridium difficile Toxin A. Infection and Immunity 84, 2317–2323. PMCID: PMC4962640

Bartelt, L.A., Bolick, D.T., Kolling, G.L., Roche, J.K., Zaenker, E.I., Lara, A.M., Noronha, F.J., Cowardin, C.A., Moore, J.H., Turner, J.R., et al. (2016). Cryptosporidium Priming Is More Effective than Vaccine for Protection against Cryptosporidiosis in a Murine Protein Malnutrition Model. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 10, e0004820. PMCID: PMC4965189

Burgess, S.L., Saleh, M., Cowardin, C.A., Buonomo, E., Noor, Z., Watanabe, K., Abhyankar, M., Lajoie, S., Wills-Karp, M., and Petri, W.A. (2016). Role of Serum Amyloid A, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, and Bone Marrow Granulocyte-Monocyte Precursor Expansion in Segmented Filamentous Bacterium-Mediated Protection from Entamoeba histolytica. Infection and Immunity 84, 2824–2832. PMCID: PMC5038085

Buonomo, E.L., Cowardin, C.A., Wilson, M.G., Saleh, M.M., Pramoonjago, P., and Petri, W.A. (2016). Microbiota-Regulated IL-25 Increases Eosinophil Number to Provide Protection during Clostridium difficile Infection. Cell Reports 16, 432–443. PMCID: PMC4945404

Cowardin, C.A., Kuehne, S.A., Buonomo, E.L., Marie, C.S., Minton, N.P., and Petri, W.A. (2015). Inflammasome Activation Contributes to Interleukin-23 Production in Response to Clostridium difficile. MBio 6, e02386-14. PMCID: PMC4324312

Burgess, S.L., Buonomo, E., Carey, M., Cowardin, C.A., Naylor, C., Noor, Z., Wills-Karp, M., and Petri, W.A. (2014a). Bone Marrow Dendritic Cells from Mice with an Altered Microbiota Provide Interleukin 17A-Dependent Protection against Entamoeba histolytica Colitis. MBio 5, e01817-14. PMCID: PMC4222101

Cowardin, C.A., and Petri, W.A. (2014). Host recognition of Clostridium difficile and the innate immune response. Anaerobe 30, 205–209. PMCID: PMC4258135