Sentences with phrase «calls microbes in the gut»

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Dr. Kellermayer is studying the effects of so - called «fecal transplants,» which involve giving participants in the study stool specimens from healthy adult individuals to change the microbes in the patient's gut.

By contrast, mice raised in the germ - free cages showed worse motor symptoms when they either were treated with microbial metabolites called short - chain fatty acids or received fecal transplants of gut microbes from patients with Parkinson's disease.

Human milk's most important role could be preventing infant disease and boosting immunity by cultivating a balance of microbes in the gut and the rest of the body, a kind of internal ecosystem called the microbiome.

The finding provides the first direct proof that microbes that leave the gut and travel to the rest of the body — a process called microbial translocation — is the mechanism that triggers these health complication in people with HIV.

A new map called «The Patina of Feces» shows that the outer door frames of American homes wear a thin veneer of microbes that are normally found in animals» guts.

The procedure of transferring stool to a patient — technically called fecal microbiota transplantation — was first performed in the United States in 1958 to treat an intractable case of C. difficile colitis, a gastrointestinal condition caused when the balance of microbes in the gut — called the microbiome — is destabilized or destroyed.

By comparing how gut microbes from human vegetarians and grass - grazing baboons digest different diets, researchers have shown that ancestral human diets, so called «paleo» diets, did not necessarily result in better appetite suppression.

In the journal Nature, Manuela Raffatellu, associate professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, and colleagues provide the first evidence that small protein molecules called microcins, produced by beneficial gut microbes, play a critical part in blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestineIn the journal Nature, Manuela Raffatellu, associate professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, and colleagues provide the first evidence that small protein molecules called microcins, produced by beneficial gut microbes, play a critical part in blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestinein blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestinein inflamed intestines.

The last several years have seen an explosion of interest in the constellation of bacteria that call the gut home, and these microbes appear to play a role in everything from immunity to metabolism to mood.

In recent years, scientists have become aware of the important role of microbes existing inside the human gastrointestinal tract, called the gut microbiome.

They found that the abundance of Th - 17 cells in the gut is tied to the presence of gut microbes called segmented filamentous bacteria.

A second area focuses on the role of microbes in our intestines (called gut flora) in heart disease.

This is because the microbes in your gut produce thousands of chemicals, called metabolites, that affect your overall wellness.

A study published in 2013 in the journal Gut Microbes found that taking a particular microbe could reduce a person's level of inflammatory proteins (called cytokines).

Certain microbes in your gut can stimulate our body to produce inflammatory substances called cytokines, which create a state of low - grade inflammation in your body or nervous system.

One of the compounds in pomegranate is transformed by gut microbes into a molecule called urolithin A, which causes mitophagy a process important for the renewal of mitochondria.

Further analysis revealed that microbes (and their fat molecules) normally found in infant guts help to keep inflammation in check and boost the regulatory power of so - called T cells, the worker bees of the immune system.