Sentences with phrase «gut microbial composition»

it also appears to take some time to shift the gut microbial composition.

«Exercise changes gut microbial composition independent of diet, team reports.»

Scientists are still hashing out the connection between bacteria and weight, but we do know that overweight people tend to have different gut microbial compositions than their lean counterparts.

Not exact matches

Recent findings show that the mother's gut microbiota has an important impact upon the microbial composition of the milk and its health supporting qualities.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major changes in bacterial composition, and from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable change in the vaginal microbiome.

Mothers known as «non-secretors» have a non-functional fucosyltransferase 2 (FUT2) gene, which alters the composition of their breast milk sugars and changes how the microbial community, or microbiota, of their infants» guts develop.

«If testosterone drives the microbial composition of the gut, a compelling next step would be to determine if treatment of PCOS with testosterone blockers or oral contraceptives results in the recovery of the gut microbiome,» said Thackray.

The product affected certain gut bacteria without changing the global composition of the microbial community.

Still, he adds, «there's a lot more basic biology that will need to be worked out to fully appreciate the mechanisms that cause sweeteners to alter gut microbial community composition and function, and how in turn this shapes host metabolism.»

To investigate variation in gut microbial community composition within a species, we collected fecal samples from five groups of black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in Mexico over an eight - week period (May - July 2009).

Preliminary analyses indicate that differences in gut microbial community composition are related to the environment each group inhabits.

FUT2 genotype and secretory status are not associated with fecal microbial composition and inferred function in healthy subjects — Williams Turpin — Gut Microbes

When human beings travel around the world, their gut flora change in composition, shifting the ratios of different microbial species and even introducing new species.

When the team first examined the microbial composition of intestinal biopsies, they saw the bacterial strains in the tumors and surrounding tissues of colon cancer patients differed from the bacterial strains in the gut of healthy individuals.

in short, varying the inputs can have a dramatic impact on the composition of the gut microbial community.