Variation of mucin distribution in the rat intestine, caecum and colon: Effect of the bacterial flora

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-239

  Meslin, Jean Claude ^a   Fontaine, Nicole ^a   Andrieux, Claude ^a  

^a U d'Ecologie Physiol Syst D   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Contents; Hindgut; Intestine; Mucin; Mucosa; Rat; Spectrocolorimetric assay

Indexed keywords

MUCIN; SIALOMUCIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CECUM; COLON; COLORIMETRY; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MUCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032839542     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00056-2     Document Type: Article

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