Colonization dynamics of altered schaedler flora is influenced by gender, aging, and Helicobacter hepaticus infection in the intestines of swiss webster mice

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 5100-5103

  Ge, Zhongming ^a   Feng, Yang ^a   Taylor, Nancy S ^a   Ohtani, Masahiro ^a   Polz, Martin F ^b   Schauer, David B ^a   Fox, James G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISEASES; DYNAMICS; STRAIN;

ALTERED SCHAEDLER FLORA (ASF); HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; INTESTINES; SWISS WEBSTER MICE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA; RNA;

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; FLORA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; RODENT;

AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDES; CECUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EUBACTERIUM; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; INTESTINE; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; MICE; SEX FACTORS;

HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS;

EID: 33746102914     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01934-05     Document Type: Article

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