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When a healthy diet turns deadly

The health benefits of a high fiber diet (HFD) result in part from the action of metabolic end products made by gut commensals on the host epithelium. Butyrate is one such beneficial metabolite; however, butyrate paradoxically enhances the capacity of Escherichia coli-produced Shiga toxin type 2 (St...

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Autores principales: Zumbrun, Steven D, Melton-Celsa, Angela R, O’Brien, Alison D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23989728
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/gmic.26263