Sentences with phrase «own bacterial communities»

And essentially, what they found is that the bacterial community of a baby that has even a little bit of formula looks pretty much the same as a baby that only eats formula.
«Making intricate images with bacterial communities
Mode of delivery affects the bacterial community in the newborn gut.
Association between breast milk bacterial communities and establishment and development of the infant gut microbiome.
Bacterial communities associated with combination feeding were more similar to those associated with exclusive formula feeding than exclusive breastfeeding (P =.002).
Does this HMO variability serve to maintain and enhance some of the differences in bacterial communities between individuals?
Like other components of breast milk, the bacterial community changes dramatically between colostrum and mature milk with colostrum being the most diverse with over 1,000 different bacterial types [4].
Its discovery supports the idea that viruses help regulate the teeming bacterial communities that call our gut home.
To explore what shapes the body's bacterial communities, Elizabeth Costello at the University of Colorado in Boulder and colleagues sampled 18 sites on eight people for four months.
The team wanted to find out what shapes bacterial communities across the body.
Coauthor Alan Wolfe, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Loyola, overturned that dogma when his laboratory discovered the female urinary microbiome, and he has been at the forefront of isolating and characterizing individual bacterial species from this novel bacterial community.
The study found that viruses varied more widely between the twins than the bacterial communities did.
It is important for NASA to learn how bacterial communities that play roles in human health and disease are affected by spaceflight.
«Shifting bacterial communities in the stomach may influence cancer risk: Microbe changes linked with specific conditions could explain differences in risk and type of tumor.»
Jesus Luevano, a medical student at Harvard Medical School and a researcher the Ragon Institute examined bacterial communities from the gut of 145 people in Boston and 120 subjects in Uganda.
Building 3 - D models of bacterial communities could help explain how the microbes work together and evade drugs, says bioengineer Jason Shear of the University of Texas at Austin.
In order to reveal the connections between neuropeptides and bacterial communities, the Kiel - based researchers first concentrated on the development of the freshwater polyp's nervous system, from the egg stage through to an adult animal.
«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.
«We're thinking that as rain falls over the land it's taking with it these lignin compounds, but it's also taking with it the bacterial community that's really good at eating the lignin.»
New research indicates that this might be achieved by examining changes in the bacterial communities of the mouth that occur after death.
During this developmental time, the bacterial communities covering the animal's surface change radically, until a stable composition of the microbiome finally forms.
Upon death and as the decomposition process advances, bacterial communities change according to the newly set environmental conditions,» said Dr. Joe Adserias - Garriga, lead author of the Molecular Oral Microbiology study.
For instance, alterations in the composition of the bacterial community are implicated in the origin of various so - called environmental diseases.
«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 central aspect of life sciences is to explore the symbiotic cohabitation of animals, plants and humans with their specific bacterial communities.
The balance of bacterial communities in the colon of obese people is disturbed.
Researchers used a laboratory technique called 16s rRNA sequencing to compare the bacterial communities of the conjunctiva (the eye surface) and the skin under the eye from 58 adults.
The findings add strength and precision to a growing body of evidence that the makeup of bacterial communities in the vagina — the vaginal microbiome — may increase or decrease HIV risk for women, depending on which bacteria are there.
It's unclear how these changes occur, said senior study author Maria Dominguez - Bello, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the university, «if these bacteria are transferred from the fingers to the lens and to the eye surface, or if the lenses exert selective pressures on the eye bacterial community in favor of skin bacteria.»
Several studies have shown that BV is linked to a 1.5-fold increased risk of HIV, and a recent South African study showed that women with «high diversity» bacterial communities had a fourfold increase in their odds of acquiring HIV.
Kolker and his colleagues, meanwhile, are using genomic analyses to look at changes in bacterial communities in soils as proxies to understand how the wetlands may be affected by oil.
Its discovery supports the idea that viruses may be the puppet masters of our intestines, regulating the teeming bacterial communities that call our gut home.
Ultimately, the team wanted to build a model that could use a mouse's starting gut bacterial community to predict that mouse's risk of infection.
Participants with high - risk bacterial communities, which are commonly found in the population of women studied, also had increased numbers of genital CD4 + T cells — white blood cells that are HIV's primary target.
Whatever it is, says Dutilh, it highlights the importance of the virome as a mechanism of control one level higher than bacterial communities.
However, the work does identify a new mechanism to potentially reduce vaginal inflammation and thus HIV risk by helping women with diverse bacterial communities in their genital tract become more Lactobacillus dominant.
When the researchers delved into the functions of the different bacterial communities, they found a potential gradient between the BaAka and western microbes in pathways involved in processing carbohydrates and foreign substances.
In addition, the researchers showed that the CRISPR system could be used to selectively remove specific bacteria from diverse bacterial communities based on their genetic signatures, thus opening up the potential for «microbiome editing» beyond antimicrobial applications.
Pyles also indicated that this model «will provide the opportunity to study the way that these mixed species bacterial communities change the activity of vaginal applicants including over-the-counter products like douches and prescription medications and contraceptives.
But as they reported in 2014, stunted children didn't have the appropriate bacterial community for their age, but an «immature» one more typical of a younger child.
«Bacterial communities already present at the site of an oil spill can respond in a rapid and efficient manner, becoming abundant during the spill and actively degrading oil compounds,» Dombrowski said.
The researchers pinpointed specific pathways where members of the complex, native bacterial community work together to consume oil.
The team also analyzed the effects of a «probiotic cocktail» of various bacterial strains that is being developed to treat inflammatory diseases, predicting the contributions of each member of the cocktail to maintain the stability of the bacterial community when diet was altered.
The bacterial community from the healthy child remained fairly stable in species composition and enzyme profile.
The goal is to correlate changes in the composition of bacterial communities in and on the body with certain diseases.
Laboratory tests indicate that the eCAPs work well against biofilms, which are bacterial communities that develop very high levels of resistance to antibiotics by working together to protect the film's inner bacteria from traditional treatments.
The eCAPs seem to push through the outer layers of biofilms to destroy the entire bacterial community.
The shape and chemical composition of the mounds, called stromatolites, match those formed by modern bacterial communities living in shallow seawater, says a team led by geologist Allen Nutman of the University of
Rahel thinks that «much larger studies will need to be completed in order to understand the... variation of these bacterial communities in healthy individuals and to determine if there are specific patterns that emerge from this variability that indicate normal and abnormal states.»
Disturbances of the placenta's bacterial community may explain why some women give birth prematurely, and could also be one of the ways that a woman's diet affects her offspring's gut bacteria, and as a result the child's disease risk.
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