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The role of butyrate in human colonic epithelial cells: an energy source or inducer of differentiation and apoptosis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Angela Hague ,
Alison J. Butt  and
Christos Paraskeva
Angela Hague
Affiliation:
The CRC Colorectal Biology Tumour Group, Department of Pathology & Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 ITD
Alison J. Butt
Affiliation:
The CRC Colorectal Biology Tumour Group, Department of Pathology & Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 ITD
Christos Paraskeva
Affiliation:
The CRC Colorectal Biology Tumour Group, Department of Pathology & Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 ITD
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‘The nutritional consequences of complex carbohydrates’ Symposium 3
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , November 1996 , pp. 937 - 943
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1996

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