Interactions between Bacteria and Bile Salts in the Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Tracts
Bile salts and bacteria have intricate relationships. The composition of the intestinal pool of bile salts is shaped by bacterial metabolism. In turn, bile salts play a role in intestinal homeostasis by controlling the size and the composition of the intestinal microbiota. As a consequence, alterati...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2017.00163/full |