Symbiotic formulation in experimentally induced liver fibrosis in rats: intestinal microbiota as a key point to treat liver damage? - D'Argenio, Giuseppe; Cariello, Rita; Tuccillo, Concetta; Mazzone, Giovanna; Federico, Alessandro; Funaro, Annalisa; De Magistris, Laura; Grossi, Enzo; Callegari, Maria L.; Chirico, Marilena; Caporaso, Nicola; Romano, Marco; et al. (Liver international, 2013)
Keywords: Analysis of Variance; Animals; Carbon Tetrachloride - toxicity; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Cytokines - metabolism; Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis; Feces - chemistry; Galactans - pharmacology; Gastrointestinal Tract - metabolism; Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology; Gene Expression Regulation - drug effects; Gene Expression Regulation - immunology; Glutamine - pharmacology; intestinal microbiota; Lactobacillus - metabolism; Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental - chemically induced; Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental - drug therapy; Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental - microbiology; Male; Permeability - drug effects; Probiotics - pharmacology; rat liver fibrosis; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; symbiotic treatment; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - blood