Reviewer's report
Title:Keratin 8 expression in colon cancer associates with low faecal butyrate
levels
Version: 4Date:16 December 2010
Reviewer: Beat Schwaller
Reviewer's report:
Comments
The authors have addressed the remaining issues, most importantly, they have
reduced the strength of their claims about the causal relationship between low
faecal butyrate levels and keratin 8 expression. They now describe it as a
possible association.
Minor Essential revisions
In the revised legend of Fig. 3, there are still references to the “deleted Figs. 4A
and 4B”, which are actually now Figs. 3C and 3D. This should be corrected.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:Keratin 8 expression in colon cancer associates with low faecal butyrate
levels
Version: 4Date:16 December 2010
Reviewer: Beat Schwaller
Reviewer's report:
Comments
The authors have addressed the remaining issues, most importantly, they have
reduced the strength of their claims about the causal relationship between low
faecal butyrate levels and keratin 8 expression. They now describe it as a
possible association.
Minor Essential revisions
In the revised legend of Fig. 3, there are still references to the “deleted Figs. 4A
and 4B”, which are actually now Figs. 3C and 3D. This should be corrected.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Keratin 8 expression in colon cancer associates with low faecal butyrate
levels
Version: 4Date:16 December 2010
Reviewer: Beat Schwaller
Reviewer's report:
Comments
The authors have addressed the remaining issues, most importantly, they have
reduced the strength of their claims about the causal relationship between low
faecal butyrate levels and keratin 8 expression. They now describe it as a
possible association.
Minor Essential revisions
In the revised legend of Fig. 3, there are still references to the “deleted Figs. 4A
and 4B”, which are actually now Figs. 3C and 3D. This should be corrected.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
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