The human gastrointestinal microbiota and prostate cancer development and treatment [PDF]
, 2020 The human gastrointestinal microbiome contains commensal bacteria and other microbiota that have been gaining increasing attention in the context of cancer development and response to treatment.
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陆军军医大学学报Objective To compare the differences in gut microbiota between cirrhosis patients receiving transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) and those not, and explore the relationship between TIPS surgery and gut microbiota in order to provide new ...
LI Shengpeng, XIAO Xu, ZHOU An
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Changes in the intestinal microbiota after a short period of dietary over-indulgence, representative of a holiday or festival season [PDF]
, 2008 The effects on the intestinal microbiota of a short period of marginal over-eating, characteristic of holiday or festival periods, were investigated in a pilot study.
Gougoulias, Christos +5 more
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In silico identification of bacteriocin gene clusters in the gastrointestinal tract, based on the Human Microbiome Project’s reference genome database [PDF]
, 2015 peer-reviewedBackground The human gut microbiota comprises approximately 100 trillion microbial cells which significantly impact many aspects of human physiology - including metabolism, nutrient absorption and immune function ...
Cotter, Paul D. +5 more
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Interpreting Prevotella and Bacteroides as biomarkers of diet and lifestyle
Microbiome, 2016 In a series of studies of the gut microbiome, “enterotypes” have been used to classify gut microbiome samples that cluster together in ordination analyses.
Anastassia Y. Gorvitovskaia +2 more
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Bacteroides fragilis meningitis [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1985 A fatal case of pyogenic meningitis due to Bacteroides fragilis in a 6-year-old boy is reported. The need for processing cerebrospinal fluid of patients with underlying conditions such as chronic otitis media for recovery of both aerobes and anaerobes is discussed.
S A Jatto, K Afolabi, Tolu Odugbemi
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mSystems, 2020 Microbial metabolism and trophic interactions between microbes give rise to complex multispecies communities in microbe-host systems. Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (B.
Jennie L. Catlett +6 more
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Role of gut microbiota in the aetiology of obesity: proposed mechanisms and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2016 The aetiology of obesity has been attributed to several factors (environmental, dietary, lifestyle, host, and genetic factors); however none of these fully explain the increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide.
Edwards, Christine Ann +3 more
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Maternal fucosyltransferase 2 status affects the gut bifidobacterial communities of breastfed infants. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundIndividuals with inactive alleles of the fucosyltransferase 2 gene (FUT2; termed the 'secretor' gene) are common in many populations. Some members of the genus Bifidobacterium, common infant gut commensals, are known to consume 2'-fucosylated ...
German, J Bruce +11 more
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Gut microbiome of native Arab Kuwaitis
Gut Pathogens, 2020 Background The human gut microbiome has an important role in health and disease. There is extensive geographical variation in the composition of the gut microbiome, however, little is known about the gut microbiome composition of people from the Arabian ...
Erica Plummer +3 more
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