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Peroral treatment with <jats:italic>L. reuteri<\/jats:italic> improved colitis severity clinically and morphologically and reduced the colonic levels of Tumor necrosis factor-\u03b1 (TNF-\u03b1) (<jats:italic>Tnf<\/jats:italic>), Interleukin 1-\u03b2 (<jats:italic>Il1\u03b2<\/jats:italic>), and nterferon-\u03b3 (<jats:italic>Ifng<\/jats:italic>), the crucial pro-inflammatory cytokines in colitis onset. It also prevented the CD11b<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup>Ly6G<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> neutrophil recruitment and the skewed immune responses in mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs) of CD11b<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup>CD11c<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> dendritic cell (DC) expansion and Foxp3<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup>CD4<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> T-cell reduction. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and RT-qPCR, we demonstrated a colitis-driven bacterial translocation to MLNs and gut microbiota dysbiosis that were in part counterbalanced by <jats:italic>L. reuteri<\/jats:italic> treatment. Moreover, the expression of barrier-preserving tight junction (TJ) proteins and cytoprotective heat shock protein (HSP) 70 and HSP25 was reduced by colitis but boosted by <jats:italic>L. reuteri<\/jats:italic> treatment. A shift in expression pattern was also observed with HSP70 in response to the pretreatment and with HSP25 in response to <jats:italic>L. reuteri<\/jats:italic>-DSS. In addition, the changes of HSPs were found to be correlated to bacterial load and epithelial cell proliferation. 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