Arsenic Exposure Perturbs the Gut Microbiome and Its Metabolic Profile in Mice: An Integrated Metagenomics and Metabolomics Analysis

Background: The human intestine is host to an enormously complex, diverse, and vast microbial community-the gut microbiota. The gut microbiome plays a profound role in metabolic processing, energy production, immune and cognitive development, epithelial homeostasis, and so forth. However, the compos...

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Main Authors: Lu, Kun (Contributor), Schlieper, Katherine Ann (Contributor), Graffam, Michelle E. (Contributor), Wishnok, John S. (Contributor), Swenberg, James A. (Author), Levine, Stuart S. (Contributor), Abo, Ryan (Author), Fox, James G (Author), Tannenbaum, Steven R (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine (Contributor), Abo, Ryan Phillip (Contributor), Tannenbaum, Steven Robert (Contributor), Fox, James G. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Environmental Health Perspectives, 2015-10-28T16:28:49Z.
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