The Gut Microbiome: Connecting Spatial Organization to Function

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 433-442

  Tropini, Carolina ^a   Earle, Kristen A ^a   Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^a,b   Sonnenburg, Justin L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeography; colon; host microbe interactions; imaging; microbiome profiling; microbiota; mucosal

Indexed keywords

MUCIN 2;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMENSAL; ENTEROPATHY; HISTOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMAGING; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 85017343731     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.03.010     Document Type: Review

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