Anticancer effects of the microbiome and its products

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 465-478

  Zitvogel, Laurence ^a,b,c,d   Daillère, Romain ^a,b,c   Roberti, María Paula ^a,b,c   Routy, Bertrand ^a,b,c   Kroemer, Guido ^d,e,f,g,h,i  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d GRCC   (France)

^e CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

ⁱ KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER CELL; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE FLORA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METABOLITE; MICROBIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BACTERIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85023641634     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.44     Document Type: Review

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