Sentences with phrase «received fecal transplants»

When germ - free mice with no gut bacteria received fecal transplants from responders, they did better on PD - 1 blockers than did mice given nonresponder feces.

By contrast, mice raised in the germ - free cages showed worse motor symptoms when they either were treated with microbial metabolites called short - chain fatty acids or received fecal transplants of gut microbes from patients with Parkinson's disease.

Editor's note: This post was updated February 14, 2014, to clarify who can receive fecal transplants using samples from OpenBiome.

Not exact matches

Already doctors are having success treating diseases like colitis with fecal transplants to reestablish gut flora in patients who have received intensive rounds of antibiotics.

Only six mice for each generation were examined, and only three animals received the final fecal transplant to restore their gut diversity.

However, after receiving a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) to treat the infection, the same subjects showed universal gut microbial dynamics.