Beneficial bacteria inhibit cachexia

Muscle wasting, known as cachexia, is a debilitating condition associated with chronic inflammation such as during cancer. Beneficial microbes have been shown to optimize systemic inflammatory tone during good health; however, interactions between microbes and host immunity in the context of cachexi...

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Main Authors: Varian, Bernard, Goureshetti, Sravya, Poutahidis, Theofilos, Lakritz, Jessica R., Levkovich, Tatiana, Kwok, Caitlin, Teliousis, Konstantinos, Ibrahim, Yassin, Mirabal, Sheyla, Erdman, Susan E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Impact Journals/National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102630