Handling stress may confound murine gut microbiota studies

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Volumn 2017, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Allen Blevins, Cary R ^a   You, Xiaomeng ^b   Hinde, Katie ^c   Sela, David A ^b,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Methods; Microbiota; Milk oligosaccharides; Mouse study

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM SUBSP. INFANTIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS;

EID: 85011278661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2876     Document Type: Article

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