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Human Intestinal Lumen and Mucosa-Associated Microbiota in Patients with Colorectal Cancer
28 Jun 2012
Abstract excerpt
Recent reports have suggested the involvement of gut microbiota in the progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). We utilized pyrosequencing based analysis of 16S rRNA genes to determine the overall structure of microbiota in patients with colorectal cancer and healthy controls; we investigated microbiota of the intestinal lumen, the cancerous tissue and matched noncancerous normal tissue. Moreover, we investigated...
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