Nutritional aspects of dissimilatory sulfate reduction in the human large intestine

Current Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 294-298

  Willis, Caroline L ^a   Cummings, John H ^b   Neale, Graham ^c   Gibson, Glenn R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; MALONIC ACID; MOLYBDATE SODIUM; NITRATE; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; SULFATE; SULFITE; THIOSULFATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ACETATES; ADULT; COLON; CULTURE MEDIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; ETHANOL; FECES; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MALONATES; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATES; NITRITES; SULFATES; SULFITES; THIOSULFATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS;

EID: 0030722468     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900257     Document Type: Article

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