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Surgical stress shifts the intestinal Escherichia coli population to that of a more adherent phenotype: role in barrier regulation.
Surgery - 1 Jul 2001
Rocha F, Laughlin R, Musch M W, Hendrickson B A, Chang E B, Alverdy J
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BACKGROUND: We have shown that the combination of surgical stress and starvation in mice is associated with a defect in epithelial permeability and increased numbers of mucosa-associated Escherichia coli in the cecum. The aim of this study was to determine the specific role of mucosa-associated E...
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