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outer mucus layer

The outer of two mucus layers secreted by epithelial cells in the colon; the outer mucus layer is loosely packed and can be colonized by bacteria… 
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2016
2016
Elucidating the role of the mucus-associated microbiota and mucin glycosylation in inflammatory bowel disease
The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract is host to a dynamic community of 1013-1014 bacteria, which mainly reside in the colonic… 
2015
2015
Gut microbiota: A new microbial niche in the intestinal outer mucus layer
  • Hugh Thomas
  • Nature Reviews Gastroenterology &Hepatology
  • 2015
  • Corpus ID: 35582577
Few therapies are approved for the treatment of NAFLD. Now, researchers have shown that treatment with nicotinamide riboside, a… 
2015
2015
16S rRNA amplicon data from the paper : "The outer mucus layer hosts a distinct intestinal microbial niche"
2013
2013
The Gut Barrier in IBD : The First Line of Defense
The discovery of an inner mucus layer normally impervious to bacteria has changed our way of understanding the interaction… 
2012
2012
Reply to Verdugo: Mucins form highly organized supramolecular structures
The model of mucins as enormously large linear polymers with limited organization has dominated the mucus field. Twenty-five… 
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