Gut microbiota and IBD: Causation or correlation?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 573-584

  Ni, Josephine ^a   Wu, Gary D ^a   Albenberg, Lindsey ^b   Tomov, Vesselin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 23;

AUTOPHAGY; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COLITIS; DYSBIOSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LYMPHOID CELL; METABOLITE; MYCOBIOME; NONHUMAN; PANETH CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; TH17 CELL; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DYSBIOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES;

EID: 85029670713     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2017.88     Document Type: Review

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