Starving our microbial self: The deleterious consequences of a diet deficient in microbiota-accessible carbohydrates

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 779-786

  Sonnenburg, Erica D ^a   Sonnenburg, Justin L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

BREAST MILK; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSBIOSIS; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFESTYLE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEALTH; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEALTH; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84910138842     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.07.003     Document Type: Review

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