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microViz: an R package for microbiome data visualization and statistics
Journal of Open Source Software, 2021 microViz is an R package for the statistical analysis and visualization of microbiota data. This package extends the functionality of popular microbial ecosystem data analysis R packages, including phyloseq (McMurdie & Holmes, 2013), vegan (Oksanen et al.
David J. M. Barnett, I. Arts, J. Penders
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Public understanding of science and common sense: Social representations of the human microbiome among the expert and non-expert public [PDF]
, 2020 The aim of this investigation is to examine the structure and the content of different social groups’ representations of the human microbiome. We employed a non-probabilistic sample comprising two groups of participants.
Fasanelli, Roberto, Galli, Ida
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The mechanisms through which cells of the host innate immune system distinguish commensal bacteria from pathogens are currently unclear. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a class of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) expressed by host cells which ...
Sreeram Udayan +8 more
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Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2014 In 2011, at the Society for Integrative Oncology's international meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, Francis Collins, PhD, head of the National Institutes of Health, shocked the audience when he asserted that although his work in the human genome was exciting, he was more impressed by the potential represented by the National Institutes of Health's investment ...
Plotnikoff, Gregory A., Riley, David
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Integrating the Ecosystem Services Framework to Define Dysbiosis of the Breastfed Infant Gut: The Role of B. infantis and Human Milk Oligosaccharides [PDF]
, 2020 Mounting evidence supports a connection between the composition of the infant gut microbiome and long-term health. In fact, aberrant microbiome compositions during key developmental windows in early life are associated with increased disease risk ...
Casaburi, Giorgio +3 more
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A simple novel device for air sampling by electrokinetic capture. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundA variety of different sampling devices are currently available to acquire air samples for the study of the microbiome of the air. All have a degree of technical complexity that limits deployment.
Frazier, Angel +5 more
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Lung microbiome: new insights into the pathogenesis of respiratory diseases
Signal Transduction and Targeted TherapyThe lungs were long thought to be sterile until technical advances uncovered the presence of the lung microbial community. The microbiome of healthy lungs is mainly derived from the upper respiratory tract (URT) microbiome but also has its own ...
Ruomeng Li, Jing Li, Xikun Zhou
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The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type–specific intracellular bacteria
Science, 2020 Profiling tumor bacteria Bacteria are well-known residents in human tumors, but whether their presence is advantageous to the tumors or to the bacteria themselves has been unclear.
D. Nejman +60 more
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A framework for human microbiome research. [PDF]
, 2012 A variety of microbial communities and their genes (the microbiome) exist throughout the human body, with fundamental roles in human health and disease. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Human Microbiome Project Consortium has established a ...
Human Microbiome Project Consortium
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Foregut microbiome in development of esophageal adenocarcinoma [PDF]
, 2010 Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA), the type of cancer linked to heartburn due to gastroesophageal reflux diseases (GERD), has increased six fold in the past 30 years. This cannot currently be explained by the usual environmental or by host genetic factors.
Aaron Tenney +27 more
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