Untangling the Impacts of Gut Bacteria on Drug Metabolism (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Untangling the Impacts of Gut Bacteria on Drug Metabolism (1 of 2)

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Humans and their gut microbes can both transform beneficial drugs into harmful products. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 8, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Michael Zimmermann at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and colleagues was titled, "Separating host and microbiome contributions to drug pharmacokinetics and toxicity."

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Marieke F. Buffing

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