Helicobacter hepaticus infection in mice: models for understanding lower bowel inflammation and cancer

Helicobacter hepaticus infection in mice: models for understanding lower bowel inflammation and cancer

Pioneering work in the 1990s first linked a novel microaerobic bacterium, Helicobacter hepaticus, with chronic active hepatitis and inflammatory bowel disease in several murine models. Targeted H. hepaticus infection experiments subsequently demonstrated its ability to induce colitis, colorectal can...

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Main Authors: Fox, James G. (Contributor), Ge, Zhongming (Contributor), Whary, Mark T. (Contributor), Erdman, Susan E. (Contributor), Horwitz, Bruce H. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2014-08-15T14:28:40Z.
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