The human gastrointestinal microbiota - An unexplored frontier for pharmaceutical discovery

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 443-447

  Roeselers, Guus ^a   Bouwman, Jildau ^a   Venema, Koen ^a   Montijn, Roy ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drugs; Gut; Human microbiome; Metagenomics; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIOCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEFENSIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PRODRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

AUTISM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMENSAL; DRUG TARGETING; ENTERITIS; HALITOSIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; TYPHLITIS;

EID: 84869504373     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: 10961186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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