The Toll-like receptors TLR2 and TLR4 do not affect the intestinal microbiota composition in mice

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 709-715

  Loh, Gunnar ^a   Brodziak, Frances ^a   Blaut, Michael ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 38549104546     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01493.x     Document Type: Article

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