Study of microbiota-host interactions during colon cancer development using a unique microbiome dependent mouse model Ghent University
Colorectal cancer (CRC) mainly affects people in Western society, and global epidemiological and experimental studies have shown that Western dietary habits strongly impact on the susceptibility to develop CRC. Increasing evidence is emerging that this susceptibility is influenced by hostmicrobiome interactions in the gut, indicating that interfering with host-microbiome interactions by diet and pre –and probiotics may be very effective in ...