Intestinal Microbiota Composition of Interleukin-10 Deficient C57BL/6J Mice and Susceptibility to Helicobacter hepaticus-Induced Colitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Ines ^a,b   Eibach, Daniel ^a,b   Kops, Friederike ^a,b   Brenneke, Birgit ^a,b   Woltemate, Sabrina ^a,b   Schulze, Jessika ^a,b   Bleich, André ^a   Gruber, Achim D ^c   Muthupalani, Sureshkumar ^d   Fox, James G ^d   Josenhans, Christine ^a,b   Suerbaum, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; INTERLEUKIN 10; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BILOPHILA WADSWORTHIA; CECUM; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC RANK;

EID: 84881247044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070783     Document Type: Article

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