Pathogenic Intestinal Bacteria Enhance Prostate Cancer Development via Systemic Activation of Immune Cells in Mice
A role for microbes has been suspected in prostate cancer but difficult to confirm in human patients. We show here that a gastrointestinal (GI) tract bacterial infection is sufficient to enhance prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) and microinvasive carcinoma in a mouse model. We found that anim...
Main Authors: | Poutahidis, Theofilos, Cappelle, Kelsey, Levkovich, Tatiana, Lee, Chung-Wei, Doulberis, Michael, Ge, Zhongming, Fox, James G., Horwitz, Bruce H., Erdman, Susan E. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81231 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9307-6116 |
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