Bugs and the gut: An unstable marriage

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-239

  Farthing, Michael J G ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commensals; Enteropathogens; Evolution; Gut microflora; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ADHESIN; CHLORIDE; CYTOTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; INVASIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL SECRETION; COMMENSALISM; CYTOSKELETON; DIARRHEA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC CODE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INFECTION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 1842505616     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2003.11.001     Document Type: Review

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