Sentences with phrase «study gut microbes»

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species.

«Can artificial intelligence be used to study gut microbes in patients?.»

In a recent paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Shapira, who studies the gut microbes of the nematode C. elegans, reviews evidence that demonstrates how microbiotas affect and contribute to host evolution, either by evolving along with the host, or by stepping in at critical moments to help the host adapt to a new environmental challenge.

Working at its Neuroscience Institute, she studies gut microbes.

Not exact matches

High - fiber diet keeps gut microbes from eating the colon's lining, protects against infection, animal study shows,

University of Michigan Health System, High - Fiber Diet Keeps Gut Microbes From Eating The Colon's Lining, Protects Against Infection, Animal Study Shows

Dr. Kellermayer is studying the effects of so - called «fecal transplants,» which involve giving participants in the study stool specimens from healthy adult individuals to change the microbes in the patient's gut.

In a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers led by Anita Kozyrskyj found that babies born by C - section harbored a different set of microbes in their digestive tracts than those born vaginally, and that infants who were breast - fed had a different recipe of bacteria in their guts than those who were given formula.

Without the trigger of gut microbes, a baby's immune system is skewed towards allergies or autoimmune disease — animal studies suggest that there's a specific window of time when this happens and when probiotics can have the greatest impact.

Studies have shown that an immature gut may allow whole proteins, microbes, pathogens and possibly bits of foods to pass into the bloodstream.

Although the vast majority of research on the gut microbiome has focused on bacteria in the large intestine, a new study — one of a few to concentrate on microbes in the upper gastrointestinal tract — shows how the typical calorie - dense western diet can induce expansion of microbes that promote the digestion and absorption of high - fat foods.

Published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine online Oct. 31, the new study found that infliximab prevents TNF alpha from speeding the death of Paneth cells, which protect the gut from microbes.

Kadouri analyzed rats» gut microbes after a treatment of predatory bacteria, reporting the results in a study published March 6 in Scientific Reports.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

In the new study, Elinav and his team set out to determine whether gut microbes could be the missing link.

«Microbial dispersal impacts animal guts: Study with zebrafish finds that transmitted microbes will lead to similar microbiomes and a selection process for some microbes.»

«Rather than soil microbes and plants, I studied the bugs in your gut and how they influence it,» Bry says.

A study published by Cell Press October 16th in Cell now reveals that gut microbes in mice and humans have circadian rhythms that are controlled by the biological clock of the host in which they reside.

It fuels and sustains your gut microbes — and those in your kids, and grandkids and great - grandkids, too, a study in mice finds.

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

Together, the two studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.

They studied samples of rumen gut contents from 43 cows and identified 913 diverse strains of microbes living in the rumen.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

It is important to note that, in this study, gut microbes cooperate with a specific genetic factor to influence the risk for developing Parkinson's disease.

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.

The ratios of different microbes in the gut also differed between lean and obese participants at every stage of the study, the researchers said.

Now researchers have made the first study of the thanatomicrobiome — the army of gut microbes that take over your internal organs once you are dead.

About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.

«The new model enables studies of the complex interactions between host cells, mucus production, and gut microbes in a system that closely mimics the situation in human patients,» Dawson said.

Levy is fond of citing a French study showing that when people whose guts were plagued by resistant E. coli ate only sterilized food, the nature of the prevailing microbes changed.

A new study suggests that the scanty emissions are thanks to the distinct mix of microbes in the kangaroos» gut.

«Gut microbes contribute to age - associated inflammation, mouse study shows.»

The study points to interesting possibilities of harnessing synergistic host - microbe interactions to intervene early viral spread and gut inflammation and to mitigate intestinal complications associated with HIV infection.

«Proteins secreted by beneficial gut microbes shown to inhibit salmonella, invasive E. coli: Study finds that microcins help block illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.»

In the current study, being published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the international interdisciplinary research team demonstrates that the transport of molecules across the blood - brain barrier can be modulated by gut microbes — which therefore play an important role in the protection of the brain.

A new study on the crosstalk between microbes and cells lining the gut of mice shows just how cooperative this environment can be.

The researchers went into this study expecting to find that the microbes signaled the host to open up areas of chromatin to activate gene expression in the gut.

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

In a study out this week in mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes human milk still had colonies of those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatment.

A new study in mice, conducted by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet together with colleagues in Singapore and the United States, shows that our natural gut - residing microbes can influence the integrity of the blood - brain barrier, which protects the brain from harmful substances in the blood.

Gut bacteria that make up the gastrointestinal microbiome play an important role in the metabolism of most chemicals humans ingest, motivating studies of microbe - driven breakdown of clinically important drugs.

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.

A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) changed the composition and diversity of gut microbes, which in turn shaped how the drug is broken down and ultimately, cut its effectiveness, according to an animal study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Studies of the pandas» poop show that their gut microbes break down bamboo efficiently — a trick that humans could co-opt to turn woody plant material into alternative energy sources.

With crowdfunded projects such as American Gut, which already has thousands of participants who have had their microbiomes sequenced, and studies of people whose lives are very different from modern Western civilization, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, Yanomami of Venezuela and Matsés of Peru, we may be able to replenish our ancestral microbes and discover new ones that help to maintain health for individuals or entire populations.

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.

To see what role the body's own immune system played in fighting infection, compared with gut microbes, the team also studied two strains of mice that have impaired immune systems.

In the second study, Thomas Gajewski at the University of Chicago and colleagues noticed differences in how quickly tumours grew in two groups of mice with different sets of gut microbes.

There is still only a handful of published studies pointing to microbe - free guts.