Sentences with phrase «human guts harbor»

The human gut harbors many beneficial microorganisms, including certain bacteria called probiotics.

The human gut harbors a complex community of microbes, collectively called microbiota.

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In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which bacterial taxa invade the gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and microbial niche are affected by human diets.

Spurred by this finding, Littman's team examined the gut microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating autoimmune disease, and found a much higher proportion of patients than healthy individuals who harbored the human intestinal bacterium Prevotella copri.