Colonization of the stratified squamous epithelium of the nonsecreting area of horse stomach by lactobacilli

Researchers have discovered several species of Lactobacillus that appear to exist symbiotically in the stomach of horses. Although they created a dense layer on the epithelium as is commonly seen in mice, rats, and pigs, many of the species adhered to horse epithelial cells but not to rat epithelial cells.