Sentences with phrase «other gut microbes»

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

«It's able to use the sugar molecules in mom's milk better than any other gut microbe, including commensal and pathogenic bugs.»

Not exact matches

I have been distraught for days, but I am looking up other labs where I might be able to do work in line with my obsession with beneficial microbes in soil and in the gut.

«This [new work] explains quite nicely the two - way interaction between microbes and us, and it shows the relationship going the other way — which is fascinating,» says Spector, author of The Diet Myth: Why the Secret to Health and Weight Loss Is Already in Your Gut.

«Like zebrafish, we have this rich source of gut microbes that have figured out how to coexist with us and soothe the immune system,» she says, adding that «there is enormous potential to harness those mechanisms» to address ailments such as inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic inflammation.

Two studies — one in mice and the other in human subjects — offer the first definitive evidence that exercise alone can change the composition of microbes in the gut.

While scientists have made great progress in identifying the individual members of the gut microbiome, it's much harder to determine exactly what they do — both individually and in concert with other microbes.

Finally, besides promoting the evolution of drug - resistant microbes, antibiotics increase the risk of side effects such as tendon rupture or kidney damage, and can damage gut and other microbiomes that are essential to overall health.

This kind of drug also holds promise because it would affect only Salmonella and leave the trillions of other microbes in the gut unaffected.

Others came from the mouse gut bacteria, suggesting adult beetles regurgitate some of the microbes they consumed from the carcass.

That's not good because there, normal, gut - dwelling microbes will feast on the sugar and belch out hydrogen and other gases.

But developing therapeutics will be harder than just mixing the microbes together into pill form, Wills - Karp says, because babies already have guts that are teeming with other bacteria.

Their findings show that most of the microbes responsible for decomposition come from the soil, not from the gut as other researchers have suggested.

When they compared S. typhimurium's 4300 genes to those of eight other gut - wrenching microbes, including ones that infect birds or reptiles and not humans, they found about 350 genes unique to the microbes that infect warm - blooded organisms.

This approach is also being used to reverse engineer even more complex gut environments by integrating other cell types, such as immune cells, neuronal cells, and commensal microbes into the device.

The surprising outcome, however, was that «within one generation, the flies developed mate preference for their own group, ignoring the others, and that this was dependent on the microbes in the gut that helped them utilize the food,» he said.

Researchers sequenced the DNA of the termite gut microbes and compared the DNA with all other kinds of microbes on earth, including from agriculture and industrial plants.

Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well - being, but one University of California, Berkeley, biologist is asking whether these microbes — our microbiota — might also have played a role in shaping who we are by steering evolution.

Studies like these are possible because of technological advances in high - throughput sequencing, which allows scientists to survey microbes in the gut and other parts of the body.

Researchers discover why gut microbe increases stomach cancer risk in some Colombians, but not others

«Since we found previously that the gut microbiome — the communities of bacteria and other microbes living there — can influence liver disease risk, we wondered what effect gastric acid suppression might have on the progression of chronic liver disease.

It's possible, say scientists who have studied these symbiotic bacteria, fungi and other microbes, that gut microbiomes might be less ubiquitous than previously assumed.

Left: The gut of a mouse that received a transplant of microbes from the gut of four - day - old normal mice, and then was exposed to Salmonella, while the other received a transplant of the four - day - old mouse microbes along with added Clostridia bacteria, before being exposed to Salmonella.

The microbes that live in our gut could prove to be a fertile source for new antibiotics and other useful drugs

Terry Hwa's lab has been working on quantitative descriptions of how genes, proteins and chemicals work together to coordinate the physiological responses of the gut bacterium E. coli, and is more recently studying the interaction of gut microbes with each other and with the host environments.

By joining American Gut, your sample and diet and lifestyle data will be merged with thousands of other folks and will allow us to explore population - level patterns that will hopefully lead to a better understanding of why we carry the microbes we carry and what aspects of our behavior and disease state drive these microbial patterns.

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

The gut microbiome — a collection of bacteria and other microbes in the gut — could be a highly accurate predictor of hospitalizations for patients with cirrhosis, according to a recently published study led by a researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Compared to the brains of normal mice, those with microbe - free guts had more of some types of microRNAs and fewer of others.

While genetic and epigenetic factors play between the host organism and the microbiota — determining which microbes successfully colonize the gut and other organs — the ultimate dictating force of the composition of an organism's microbiome is diet and environment.

Your gut contains trillions of bacteria and tiny microbes — collectively called the microbiome — that mainly help with digestion and other bodily functions.

This suggests that some microbes in a hamster's gut might influence how it behaves and interacts with others.

As recent advances in scientific understanding of Parkinson's disease and cancer immunotherapy have shown, our gut microbiomes — the trillions of bacteria, viruses and other microbes that live within us — are emerging as one of the richest untapped sources of insight into human health.

More than 100 trillion bacteria, fungi and other microbes live as squatters in your gut.

After the other males began squaring off, however, their gut microbes did change — and in both the winners and the losers.

When your gut is leaky, toxins, microbes and undigested food particles — among other things — escape from your intestines and travel throughout your body via your bloodstream.

On the other hand, when you're lacking the numbers of good microbes in your gut that you need to effectively keep your digestion moving along, one of the first places issues will materialize is on your skin.

Two common factors emerged in urine that had a better ability to resist bacterial growth: it had a high pH — one that's more alkaline, in other words — and higher levels of certain metabolites formed by gut microbes.

Nourish Your Cells: A robust inner ecosystem that's teeming with friendly microbes requires healthy mucosal tissue — in other words, the lining of the gut needs to be strong.

«In parallel with beneficial microbes in the healthy gut, scientists have found thousands of different species of downright pathogenic disease - causing microbes; bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes.

Specific gut microbes may have other benefits beyond the intestine.

It needs building blocks for them, because they're made out of certain nutrients (proteins, certain fats, vitamins, enzymes, and other active molecules)... Second, it needs the whole process to be orchestrated by the beneficial microbes in your digestive system; by the beneficial healthy gut flora.»

Our gut microbes also promote the de-conjugation and detoxification of proliferative, carcinogenic estrogen species and other exogenous toxins, reducing their enterohepatic recirculation (Gorbach, 1984).

«In our modern world where people are regularly taking antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs, where food is laced with chemicals alien to the human physiology, an increasing number of people have damaged, abnormal gut flora dominated by pathogenic [disease - causing] microbes.

In fact, exactly how the gut microbiome «interacts with foods to produce health conditions» is considered a new and dynamic area for further research by individuals on all sides of the red meat - colon cancer debate.10 For example, researchers at Harvard Medical School are studying fecal samples to assess the impact of red meat intake on gut microbes and their byproducts, which the researchers speculate may influence «biological pathways associated with colorectal cancer and other digestive diseases.»

Instead, it could be your own gut flora — those tiny microbes living in your intestinal tract — sending you strong signals to devour sweets, salty snacks or other less - than - desirable foods.

The unbalancing of the gut that occurs allows pathogenic fungal strains like Candida to become dominant over beneficial, friendly microbes, get into the blood and infect other tissues.

Because they have the gut microbes that dine on grass, passed to them by their mothers, eating grass is normal behavior among wolves and other wild canides.