Sentences with phrase «microbe population in»

A failure of immune cells to keep the gut microbe population in check can lead to chronic gut inflammation, manifesting as IBD.

The microbe population in a toilet remains until it is scrubbed off.

They found significant differences in the microbe populations in each group.

A new study shows that pregnancy alters microbe populations in the gut.

Not exact matches

California winegrowers use cover crops and compost in the vineyards to enrich healthy soils with biomass and vibrant populations of microbes and worms and to prevent erosion and attract helpful insects that prey on pests.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

«The newborn mice inherited a very altered, skewed population of microbes,» said Eugene B. Chang, MD, Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Director of the Microbiome Medicine Program of the Microbiome Center, and senior author of the study, published this week in the journal Cell Reports.

Or do harmful microbes exist in all buildings, and hospitals merely attract a human population that is particularly susceptible to them?

In the new study, they treated the mice with antibiotics to disrupt the populations of microbes living in their guIn the new study, they treated the mice with antibiotics to disrupt the populations of microbes living in their guin their gut.

A portable detector would greatly aid efforts to fight the infection in developing countries, particularly parts of Asia and Africa where as much as 40 percent of the population carries the microbe, says Robert Belknap, a physician and TB expert at the Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado.

James Kaper has discovered that when the bacterial population reaches a critical mass in the large intestine, the microbes secrete hormonelike compounds.

A more normal population of microbes in the gut can offset the bad players.»

Along with a postdoc in Kaplan's lab, Alice Liou, they decided to test whether the surgery itself caused the changes in the population of gut microbes — known as the microbiota.

Like plants in a garden, the diverse populations of microbes that normally line the intestinal tract, called the microbiota, are essential to human health.

His hunch: A hidden population of microbes was living in the mud, breathing in the oxygen.

Because infectious microbes reproduce quickly and have enormous populations, changes in their genetic makeup over several generations can show up in just a few days.

Moeller is beginning to assemble a snapshot of the microbes in the guts of our ancient ape ancestor — in essence, a paleo gut that fit our paleo diet — and hopes to go even further back in time if, as seems likely, all mammals have evolved their unique microbiota from a common ancestral population in the distant past.

Quantifying the relative abundances of three ubiquitous genera of gut microbes — Bacteroides, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium — revealed that populations of Bacteroides andLactobacillus peter out in a predictable manner, the team reported in June in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.

To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.

In a study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes — that is, unbalance the natural coral «microbiome» — opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate corals» mucus and their bodies as a wholIn a study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes — that is, unbalance the natural coral «microbiome» — opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate corals» mucus and their bodies as a wholin the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes — that is, unbalance the natural coral «microbiome» — opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate corals» mucus and their bodies as a whole.

«Experts urge a defensive stance in efforts against antimicrobial resistance: Global population of antimicrobial - susceptible microbes is a shared resource that is falling victim to the tragedy of the commons.»

The newly unveiled circulation isn't quite as vigorous as the flow in your neighborhood pool, but it may supply fresh food to a suspected population of microbes in the lake.

The team looked at an outer surface protein of B. burgdorferi found in ticks — which can give clues about the vertebrate host — as well as the probabilities that different host species transmit the microbe during a tick bite, the number of larvae feeding on the animals, and population densities.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients have less diversity in their gut microbes than does the general population, and appear to have an abundance of certain gut bacteria whose numbers are rare in healthy people.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

Over the past several years, Metcalf and colleagues have developed a «microbial clock» to measure postmortem passage of time by genetically sequencing the population of microbes on the skin and in the surrounding soil.

The ancient dung, shown in the above picture, contains gut microbes that provide clues to the two populations» diets.

That alters gut microbe populations, triggering the activity of pro-inflammatory T cells, which cause further damage in the brain, mouse studies show.

The large population of microbes that lives in the intestines, called the microbiome, is known to have important roles in digesting food and controlling metabolism, but it also has a close interrelationship with the immune system.

Any difference in the mouth microbiomes of people with HIV and those without the virus could give scientists clues about how a healthy population of oral microbes might help keep Candida in check, says medical mycologist Mahmoud Ghannoum of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Still, since only a fraction of the symbiont population is harvested, the microbes likely benefit from the association with the host by gaining nutrition in the bug's gut and a secured transmission route to the next generation,» says Hassan Salem.

Populations of microbes in the oldest sediments are estimated to have been trapped for as long as 11 million years, living in complete isolation from sun - powered life.

Not only is there a much higher diversity of microbes under the seafloor than originally thought, large and active populations exist much deeper in the sediments than was believed, the team reports 21 July in Nature.

«Viruses «piggyback» on host microbes» success: Rather than killing off their hosts in a rapidly growing microbial population, viruses opt to rise with the tide.»

It has generally been assumed that this growing population of viruses, in turn, kills more and more microbes, keeping the microbial population in check.

The key finding, he said, «illustrates how unisexual reproduction introduces limited genetic diversity in clonal populations already well adapted to an environment, which may drive outbreaks of drug resistant pathogenic microbes.»

BACTERIA AND OTHER MICROBES interact in diverse populations...

BACTERIA AND OTHER MICROBES interact in diverse populations everywhere from the human gut to the oceans.

A common characteristic in mixed populations of microbes is that some bacteria, the «cooperators,» dominate over others, the «cheaters.»

Changes in diet, as Webster points out, can also favor one population of microbes over another, which scientists have found leads to changes in mating behavior.

By the end of the simulation, the host population consisted mostly of individuals carrying the altruism - promoting microbe — in some scenarios, 100 percent of hosts ended up with the microbe.

The researchers now hypothesize that microbes in the gut, where most of this pTreg cell population is switched on, may be responsible for generating these protective cells and thus protecting against the autoimmune attack on pancreatic beta cells that cause type 1 diabetes.

Yet microbes could respond, she added, by finding new ways to manipulate hosts — or even by striking a win - win deal with them: «A new microbe could evolve, this microbe could spread in the population, and while the microbe benefits, the host also benefits.»

The researchers showed that transmissible microbes that promoted altruism in their hosts won the survival battle over microbes that did not — and when this happened, altruism became a stable trait in the host population.

Many studies in mouse models, and more recent research among human populations as well, have correlated differences in gut microbe populations with risks of developing the autoimmune condition.

We also assessed their functional phenotypes and effects on intestinal resident cell populations, and studied alterations in microbe - reactive T cells in patients with chronic intestinal inflammation.

A healthy microbiome is a diverse microbiome, and there's no better way to diversify your microbial ecosystem than to spend time outdoors in nature, play in the dirt, and hang out around animals as often as you are able — all will contribute valuable additions to your resident populations of microbes.

The microbes in our intestines do not colonize the tight inner layer of the mucus barrier, but as enzymes that we and our bacteria produce break down the sugar and protein backbones of the barrier, a loose outer layer is formed that supports a diverse population of microbes.

Traditional populations that were healthy and tolerated wheat well differed from us in that they also had all of the factors that would contribute to a robust microbiome, such as regular consumption of fermented foods, exposure to a variety of microbes through farming and close contact with animals, lack of antibiotic use, etc..

«In a series of experiments conducted with mice prone to intestinal inflammation, the researchers found that inflammation itself causes significant simplification in diverse communities of gut microbes and allows new bacterial populations to establish major footholdIn a series of experiments conducted with mice prone to intestinal inflammation, the researchers found that inflammation itself causes significant simplification in diverse communities of gut microbes and allows new bacterial populations to establish major footholdin diverse communities of gut microbes and allows new bacterial populations to establish major footholds.