The microbial organ in the gut as a driver of homeostasis and disease

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 634-638

  Lyte, Mark ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NEUROHORMONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INNERVATION; IRRITABLE COLON; METABOLIC BALANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUCOSAL DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PATHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; HOMEOSTASIS; INTESTINES; MAMMALS; SYMBIOSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77649335996     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.10.025     Document Type: Article

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