Correlation between faecal microbial community structure and cholesterol-to-coprostanol conversion in the human gut
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- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 242 (1) , 81-86
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsle.2004.10.042
Abstract
Intensity of the cholesterol-to-coprostanol conversion in the intestine, as assessed by the coprostanol-to-cholesterol ratio in faeces, was found higKeywords
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