Inhibition of polyposis in the small intestine of BALB/c mice by intestinal bacteria

Cancer Letters

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 153-156

  Ozaki, Akira ^a   Morishita, Yoshiyuki ^b   Oowada, Tsutomu ^a   Itagaki, Sin Ichi ^c   Mizutani, Takeo ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ free; Inhibition; Intestinal bacteria; Polyposis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GNOTOBIOTICS; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYP; POLYPOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; GERM-FREE LIFE; INTESTINAL POLYPS; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C;

EID: 0031727025     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(98)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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