Effects of intestinal microflora on superoxide dismutase activity in the mouse cecum

Experimental Animals

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-139

  Dobashi, Yuu ^a   Miyakawa, Yoshihiko ^b   Yamamoto, Ichiro ^a   Amao, Hiromi ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cecum; Germ free; Intestinal microflora; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RESISTANCE; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CECUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

MUS;

EID: 79955366067     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.60.133     Document Type: Article

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