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Applying Advanced In Vitro Culturing Technology to Study the Human Gut Microbiota
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Applying Advanced In Vitro Culturing Technology to Study the Human Gut Microbiota

Published on: February 15, 2019

Evidence for the mixing of residue in the human gut

H S Wiggins, J H Cummings

    Gut
    |December 1, 1976
    PubMed

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