Beneficial bacteria inhibit cachexia

Muscle wasting, known as cachexia, is a debilitating condition associated with chronic inflammation such as during cancer. Beneficial microbes have been shown to optimize systemic inflammatory tone during good health; however, interactions between microbes and host immunity in the context of cachexi...

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Main Authors: Varian, Bernard (Contributor), Goureshetti, Sravya (Contributor), Poutahidis, Theofilos (Contributor), Lakritz, Jessica R. (Contributor), Levkovich, Tatiana (Contributor), Kwok, Caitlin (Contributor), Teliousis, Konstantinos (Author), Ibrahim, Yassin (Contributor), Mirabal, Sheyla (Contributor), Erdman, Susan E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Impact Journals/National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.), 2016-05-23T17:56:18Z.
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