Study of Environmental Enteropathy and Malnutrition (SEEM) in Pakistan: protocols for biopsy based biomarker discovery and validation

• Main Authors: Najeeha T. Iqbal (Author), Sana Syed (Author), Kamran Sadiq (Author), Marium N. Khan (Author), Junaid Iqbal (Author), Jennie Z. Ma (Author), Fayaz Umrani (Author), Sheraz Ahmed (Author), Elizabeth A. Maier (Author), Lee A. Denson (Author), Yael Haberman (Author), Monica M. McNeal (Author), Kenneth D. R. Setchell (Author), Xueheng Zhao (Author), Shahida Qureshi (Author), Lanlan Shen (Author), Christopher A. Moskaluk (Author), Ta-Chiang Liu (Author), Omer Yilmaz (Author), Donald E. Brown (Author), Michael J. Barratt (Author), Vanderlene L. Kung (Author), Jeffrey I. Gordon (Author), Sean R. Moore (Author), S. Asad Ali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Environmental Enteropathy (EE), characterized by alterations in intestinal structure, function, and immune activation, is believed to be an important contributor to childhood undernutrition and its associated morbidities, including stunting. Half of all global deaths in children...