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Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Particularly the Constipation-Predominant Form, Involves an Increase in Methanobrevibacter smithii, Which Is Associated with Higher Methane Production

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Because Methanobrevibacter smithii produces methane, delaying gut transit, we evaluated M. smithii loads in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients and healthy controls (HC). METHODS: Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction for M. smithii was performed on the feces of 47 IB...

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Autores principales: Ghoshal, Ujjala, Shukla, Ratnakar, Srivastava, Deepakshi, Ghoshal, Uday C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Editorial Office of Gut and Liver 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27458176
http://dx.doi.org/10.5009/gnl15588