Antibiotic-treated versus germ-free rodents for microbiota transplantation studies

Gut Microbes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 68-74

  Lundberg, Randi ^a,b   Toft, Martin F ^b   August, Benjamin ^b   Hansen, Axel K ^a   Hansen, Camilla H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Taconic Farms Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

animal models; antibiotics; fecal transplantation; germ free; gut microbiota; mouse; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; ENTERITIS; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GERMFREE RODENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 84960358857     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2015.1127463     Document Type: Article

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