This same shift has been observed in
human inflammatory disorders, though previous attempts to mimic it in lower organisms like fruit flies or zebrafish have proved unsuccessful.
Not exact matches
Cocoa polyphenols are beneficial to
human health with regards to cardiovascular and
inflammatory diseases, metabolic
disorders, and in the prevention of cancers.
Changes in the composition of the gut microbiota are seen in many
human diseases such IBD, a chronic, lifelong
inflammatory disorder that includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Shifts in the balance of the
human microbiome — the microbial communities that call our bodies home — underlie persistent
inflammatory disorders, chronic non-healing wounds, and scar formation.
She analyzes the comparative histopathology of genetically altered mice and models of
human diseases, including cancer,
inflammatory disorders, and microbial infections.
«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand
human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition
disorders and
inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.
ANN ARBOR, Mich — By combining engineered polymeric materials known as hydrogels with complex intestinal tissue known as organoids — made from
human pluripotent stem cells — researchers have taken an important step toward creating a new technology for controlling the growth of these organoids and using them for treating wounds in the gut that can be caused by
disorders such as
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).