Probiotics and inflammatory bowel disease: Is there a scientific rationale?

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 107-115

  Shanahan, Fergus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Food; Microflora pathogenesis; Treatment Prebiotic; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

CROHN DISEASE; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROBIOTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034183435     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00054725-200005000-00007     Document Type: Article

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