Clues to arsenic's toxicity: Microbiome alterations in the mouse gut

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Potera, Carol ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID;

ARSENIC POISONING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTESTINE FLORA; LIPID METABOLISM; METAL METABOLISM; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84895112412     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A82     Document Type: Note

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