{"id":134568,"date":"2018-02-21T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=134568"},"modified":"2018-02-21T10:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:17:46","slug":"ph-d-candidate-studies-interaction-intestine-immune-system-cardiovascular-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/02\/ph-d-candidate-studies-interaction-intestine-immune-system-cardiovascular-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. candidate studies interaction of intestine and immune system cardiovascular inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of immunology, the gut is garnering new respect. Cayla Rodia, a doctoral student in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cag.uconn.edu\/nutsci\/nutsci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Nutritional Sciences<\/a>, is fascinated with the intestine\u2019s involvement with the immune system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the intestine and I really think it is the most underrated organ,\u201d Rodia says. \u201cPeople used to think it was simply for digestion, but we\u2019re learning it has so many interconnected abilities. Seventy percent of the immune system is in the gut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gut immune system is in constant contact with potential antigens,\u201d she continues. \u201cThat system has to be working correctly to prevent inflammatory or immune responses elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naturally.uconn.edu\/2018\/02\/20\/ph-d-candidate-studies-interaction-of-intestine-and-immune-system-cardiovascular-inflammation\/#more-10820\">Continue reading at Naturally@UConn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of immunology, the gut is garnering new respect. Cayla Rodia, a doctoral student in the\u00a0Department of Nutritional Sciences, is fascinated with the intestine\u2019s involvement with the immune system. \u201cI love the intestine and I really think it is the most underrated organ,\u201d Rodia says. \u201cPeople used to think it was simply for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":134569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1871],"class_list":["post-134568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 01:12:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/134569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134568"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=134568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=134568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}