Sentences with phrase «microbial population»

Low - oxygen bottom waters mean that the microbial population of the deep ocean is limited in its ability to oxidise photsynthetically produced organic matter back to CO2; thus the sediments accumulate a higher proportion of organic matter.

«Because most UTIs in dogs are believed to be ascending infections, maintenance of a healthy microbial population of the vestibule and vagina may be important in female dogs.

If you have dogs, cats or even horses — your particular microbial population will reflect this.

If researchers can work out the skin microbiome and its relationship with complement, they might be able to tweak the microbial population one way or another to, for instance, modulate complement activation in patients with diseases that are in part caused by dysregulated or dysfunctional signaling, for example, psoriasis.

Where the roughly one billion probiotic organisms per serving of yogurt work to feed and clean your gut bacteria and intestinal tract, the up to 40 billion in a cup of kefir actually work to repopulate and colonize your microbial population.

This is the first time I really contemplated this idea — that potentially, each individual (or a person dealing with certain disease states) has a microbial population «set point» in their gut.

This indicates they may be promoting different species of bifidobacteriaand probably other gut microbes within the complex gut microbial population.

She is currently working on the development of immobilized microbial communities from deep sea ecosystems to study microbial population dynamics during continuous cultures in bioreactors.

In a recent study by Helmsley grantee the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, researchers identified how the intestinal microbial population of Crohn's disease patients differs from that of individuals free of inflammatory bowel disease.

«But what this study does is allow us to explore further, now that we're clearly changing the gut microbial population and have new bugs that are more prevalent in mice with altered amyloid deposition after antibiotics.»

Therefore, we propose to perform metagenomics and transcriptomics analysis on vaginal samples from patients with high - and low - risk HPV phenotypes to investigate the microbial population dynamics and genomic diversity of the vagina during various stages of HPV infection compared to uninfected individuals.

That would mean, even though you can temporarily introduce new yeast and bacteria through your diet or reduce your existing microbial population with antibiotics, your microbiome will likely bounce back to its set profile.

For decades, most researchers have assumed that during microbial population booms, their viruses take advantage of the opportunity to multiply by killing the abundant microbial winners.

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

«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.»

The infinite variety and persistence of junk content makes it the equivalent of an electronic microbial population that reproduces at an exponential rate.

If researchers can work out the skin microbiome and its relationship with complement, they might be able to tweak the microbial population one way or another to, for instance, modulate complement activation in patients with diseases that are in part caused by dysregulated or dysfunctional signaling, for example, psoriasis.

The researchers used 16s rRNA sequencing to characterize the microbial population in stool samples donated by 19 inhabitants of the Hamlet of Resolute Bay, a Canadian Arctic village on the southern end of Cornwallis Island accessible only by plane (and, when the sea ice breaks up, by boat).

What a person eats helps determine the microbial population that inhabits their gut.

The most interesting thing about the results, she says, was not the correction of the autistic symptoms in the mice, but the clues the study provided about how the gut's microbial population may affect the brain and behavior.

«Stool microbes predict advanced liver disease: Proof - of - concept study suggests a noninvasive test for specific microbial population patterns could be used to detect advanced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.»

In mice, this dickering includes changes to the gut microbial population that ultimately lead to even more inflammation in the brain.

Tweaking the gut's microbial population can affect anxious behaviors, animal studies have shown, which suggests that gut bacteria could play a causal role in anxiety.

«We have become increasingly aware of how crucially important a healthy gut microbial population is for a well - functioning immune system.

It's when the railing is still warm and slightly greasy from an earlier passenger's hand that my thoughts turn to the subway's microbial population.

«Nerves control the body's bacterial community: Research team proves, for the first time, that there is close cooperation between the nervous system and the microbial population of the body.»

A new study delineates a sequential pattern of changes in the intestinal microbial population of patients recovering from cholera in Bangladesh, findings that may point to ways of speeding recovery from the dangerous diarrheal disease.

The report also finds what appear to be consistent differences between the gut microbial population — also called the microbiota — of individuals in developed countries like the U.S. and those the developing world and provides some of the most complete evidence that the gut microbiota usually return to normal after cholera infection.

Using state - of - the - art, high - throughput sequencing technologies, the team also analyzed the gut microbial population structures of mothers and their offspring.

The microbial population living in breast milk and the transport of bacteria between mother and child play a crucial role in regulating health.

He considers how the microbial population living in breast milk and the transport of bacteria between mother and child may play a crucial role in regulating health.

Also, and at least equally important, are the microbial populations.

Each room in your home is a different ecosystem teeming with diverse microbial populations that sometimes overlap.

«Nobody wants to necessarily save my microbial populations from collapsing,» he admits.

Similarly, sustaining microbial populations is central to the R&D activity of Bluewater Bio, a wastewater treatment specialist.

However, when the microbial populations become unbalanced, these otherwise beneficial bacteria become a liability, similar to garden plants that become invasive and push out competing species, he explained.

«That suggests a microbial expansion,» he adds: The growth of microbial populations is among the few phenomena capable of increasing carbon production exponentially, or even faster.

The research showed that, compared to pure snow and ice, the reflectivity of the glacier (known as the «albedo») can be reduced by up to 80 % in places where coloured microbial populations are extremely dense, leading to the darkening of the glacier surface.

There is a much overused phrase in microbiology — «everything is everywhere, but the environment selects» — which suggests that microbial populations are not localised but geographically ubiquitous, and unlikely to be at risk.

The research examining the differences in infant gut microbial populations arising from differences in human milk oligosaccharides (sugars), «Maternal Fucosyltransferase 2 Status Affects the Gut Bifidobacterial Communities of Breastfed Infants,» is published online today in the journal Microbiome, a BioMedCentral journal.

For the researchers, says Mathis, another important conclusion can be drawn: «If you want to understand the behaviour and fate of microbial populations, it's sometimes necessary to analyse every single cell.»

And the rise and fall of microbial populations follows a reliable course as a corpse decomposes, even though the actual pace of activity varies widely due to temperature and other environmental factors.

The researchers are therefore currently investigating if the microbial populations present in the Arctic have adapted to degrading oil compounds.

The researchers analyzed DNA fragments in the samples to show that the microbial populations varied from region to region, even on the same variety of grape.

Studies conducted over the last decade or so have shown deep connections between disease and dysbiosis, which is an imbalance in gut microbial populations.

In 2013, he and his collaborators showed that microbial populations on the surface of wine grapes vary from region to region, in patterns consistent with climate variation.

«By collecting information about microbial populations present in the sediments, we hope to gain information about how and when bacteria do that, and how bacteria couple subsurface carbon chemistry to uranium behavior.»

This differentiation can not be observed when microbial populations are analysed, as was the case so far.

«There's tons of questions around just how this whole system might control microbial populations in the gut, which have increasingly been shown to be important in obesity and diabetes, and all sorts of human conditions.»

We have applied «whole - genome shotgun sequencing» to microbial populations collected en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda.