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Dietary fibre and colorectal cancer: a model for environment--gene interactions.
Molecular nutrition & food research - 1 Jun 2005
Young Graeme P, Hu Ying, Le Leu Richard K, Nyskohus Laura
Abstract excerpt
As environmental factors are clearly associated with risk for colorectal cancer, we set out to model how dietary fibre, or the effects of its ingestion, might impact upon the complex events that characterise colorectal oncogenesis. The diverse nature of dietary fibre and its resultant fate in the gut is outlined. The evidence indicates that different types of fibre create different conditions in different regions...
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