Gut Microbiota Research & Practice is a section dedicated to promoting knowledge-sharing and debate among researchers, scientists and healthcare professionals. You will find a selection of discussions about articles from scientific literature as well as other content including interviews with experts, event reports, and special publications.
by Kristina Campbell
As MyNewGut, a research initiative involving thirty organizations from fifteen countries, continued to carry out its research program on prebiotic fibres and the gut microbiota, project participants held a workshop before the International Dietary Fibre Conference 2015 in Paris.
This Chinese study aimed to characterize the gut microbiota of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD): one group of patients with acute MDD (who scored high on a depression scale, indicating clinically significant depression), called 'active-MDD', and a second group of patients with a history of MDD who had responded to treatment (achieving a 50% reduction in depression scale scores after 4 weeks of treatment), called 'responded-MDD'.
In this study, Texas researchers investigated the structure, function, and variation of the gut microbiota in healthy children, aged 7-12 years (n = 37).
An editorial by Marchesi & Ravel proposed some definitions in microbiome research to harmonize and clarify the vocabulary used in scientific literature, according to the rapid evolution of the field towards genomic and metabolic analyses.
The Third International Congress of Translational Research in Human Nutrition (ICTRHN) took place in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 26 & 27, 2015.
One of the probiotic strains was recovered in the stool of the children at 10 days and 3 months of age, but there were no differences between the gut microbiota of the children in the control group and those in the probiotic group at 1 and 2 years of age.
Hoffmann et al. took six different microorganisms implicated in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated dysbiosis, and studied their effects on intestinal inflammation in a mono-associated mouse model.
Numerous studies focused on the role of probiotics have permitted to enlarge our knowledge of the potential use of an increasing number of probiotic strains in host's physiology. In this critical review, Le Barz and co-workers examined the most
by Kristina Campbell
Dr. Karen Edelblum recently moved from her position at The University of Chicago to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where she is now Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Center for Immunity and Inflammation.
by Kristina Campbell
Dr. Gary D. Wu is a Professor in Gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania and currently Director and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the American Gastroenterological Association Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education.
