Glyphosate has limited short-term effects on commensal bacterial community composition in the gut environment due to sufficient aromatic amino acid levels

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 233, Issue , 2018, Pages 364-376

  Nielsen, Lene Nørby ^a   Roager, Henrik M ^a   Casas, Mònica Escolà ^b   Frandsen, Henrik L ^a   Gosewinkel, Ulrich ^b   Bester, Kai ^b   Licht, Tine Rask ^a   Hendriksen, Niels Bohse ^b   Bahl, Martin Iain ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aromatic amino acid; Glyfonova ; Glyphosate; Gut; Intestinal; MIC; Microbiota; Roundup

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; BACTERIA; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; RATS; RNA;

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCING; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GLYPHOSATES; INTESTINAL; INTESTINAL BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOTAS;

HERBICIDES;

ACETIC ACID; GLYPHOSATE; RNA 16S; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; HERBICIDE;

AMINO ACID; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GLYPHOSATE; HOMEOSTASIS; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; STOMACH CONTENT;

16SRRNA GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINAL PH; INTESTINE FLORA; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PH; RAT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLANT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RATTUS;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; PLANTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 85032277480     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.10.016     Document Type: Article

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