Arsenic exposure perturbs the gut microbiome and its metabolic profile in mice: An integrated metagenomics and metabolomics analysis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 284-291

  Lu, Kun ^a   Abo, Ryan Phillip ^b   Schlieper, Katherine Ann ^b   Graffam, Michelle E ^b   Levine, Stuart ^a,b   Wishnok, John S ^a   Swenberg, James A ^c   Tannenbaum, Steven R ^a,b   Fox, James G ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSBIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTESTINE FLORA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; METAGENOME; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 84895165314     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307429     Document Type: Article

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