Role of commensal bacteria in chronic experimental colitis: Lessons from the HLA-B27 transgenic rat

Pathobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 131-138

  Rath, Heiko C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacteria; Bacteroides vulgatus; Colitis; Escherichia coli; Gastritis; HLA B27 transgenic rats; Inflammatory bowel disease; Metronidazole

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; HLA B27 ANTIGEN; METRONIDAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN PLUS IMIPENEM;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSFER; CELL TRANSPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; GASTRITIS; GENE NUMBER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HLA-B27 ANTIGEN; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES SP.; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037262748     PISSN: 10152008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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