Gut microbiota: Microbiota organization-a key to understanding CRC development

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 128-129

  Hold, Georgina L ^a   Garrett, Wendy S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERLEUKIN 6;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIOFILM; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; COLITIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DAMAGE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; COLORECTAL TUMOR; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84924256492     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2015.25     Document Type: Short Survey

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