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The importance of colonic butyrate transport to the regulation of genes associated with colonic tissue homoeostasis
1 Aug 2005
Abstract excerpt
The transition from normality to malignancy in colorectal cancer is characterized by alterations in the expression of genes associated with the maintenance of tissue homoeostasis. Butyrate, a product of microbial fermentation of dietary fibre in the colon, is known to regulate a number of genes associated with the processes of proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of colonic epithelial cells, and, hence,...
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