The composition of the gut microbiota shapes the colon mucus barrier

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 164-177

  Jakobsson, Hedvig E ^a   Rodríguez Piñeiro, Ana M ^a   Schütte, André ^a   Ermund, Anna ^a   Boysen, Preben ^b   Bemark, Mats ^a,c   Sommer, Felix ^d   Bäckhed, Fredrik ^d   Hansson, Gunnar C ^a   Johansson, Malin E V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Colon; Intestine; MUC2; Mucus

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRUCTURES; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COLON; COLON MUCUS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMFREE MOUSE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOUSE; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROBIOTA; MUCUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 84922160830     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201439263     Document Type: Article

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