Using a mathematical model to analyze the role of probiotics and inflammation in necrotizing enterocolitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Arciero, Julia C ^a   Ermentrout, G Bard ^a   Upperman, Jeffrey S ^b   Vodovotz, Yoram ^c   Rubin, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHILD HEALTH; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PREDICTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBIOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956321525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010066     Document Type: Article

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