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An acidic link

Suzanne Devkota and Peter. J. Turnbaugh ()
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Suzanne Devkota: Suzanne Devkota is at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Peter. J. Turnbaugh: Peter. J. Turnbaugh is at the FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

Nature, 2013, vol. 499, issue 7456, 37-38

Abstract: Obese people are at higher risk of multiple types of cancer, but why? One explanation could be that obesity enhances the production of pro-inflammatory, and carcinogenic, bile acids by gut microorganisms. See Letter p.97

Date: 2013
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