Intestinal bacterial population of healthy rats during the administration of chitosan and chitooligosaccharides

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 295-299

  Koppová, Ingrid ^a   Bureš, Martin ^a   Šimůnek, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; FOOD ADDITIVE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; GENETICS; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHITOSAN; FECES; FOOD ADDITIVES; INTESTINES; MALE; METAGENOME; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES (CLASS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM LEPTUM; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; LACTOBACILLUS; PREVOTELLA; RATTUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 84864032748     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-012-0129-2     Document Type: Article

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