Diversity of Microflora in Colonic Mucus from Severe Ulcerative Colitis Patients Analyzed by Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism and Clone Libraries of Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene Sequences
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50334#.VDdA3FfHRK0 Author(s) I-Nung Huang 1,2 , Yuri Sato 1,2 , Mitsuo Sakamoto 2 , Moriya Ohkuma 2 , Shinobu Ohnuma 3 , Takeshi Naitoh 3 , Chikashi Shibata 3 , Akira Horii 4 , Junko Nishimura 1 , Haruki Kitazawa 1 , Tadao Saito 1* Affiliation(s) 1 Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan . 2 Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, Ibaraki, Japan . 3 Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi, Japan . 4 Department of Molecular Pathology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi, Japan . ABSTRACT Although the gut microflora is thought to be an essential f...