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. 2015 Jan 12:5:764.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00764. eCollection 2014.

Aging and the human gut microbiota-from correlation to causality

Sitaraman Saraswati  1 , Ramakrishnan Sitaraman  2
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Aging and the human gut microbiota-from correlation to causality

Sitaraman Saraswati et al. Front Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: aging; co-evolution; ecological succession; effector molecules; elderly; gut microbiota; inter-species/kingdom signaling; microbiome.

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