Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a debilitating immune disorder of unknown cause.
MyNewGut workshop lays out plans for re-figuring fibre recommendations
25 Sep 2015by 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).
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.
Interview with Dr. Gary Wu: Studying bacterial metabolites may lead to new treatments for IBD
4 Sep 2015by 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.
Liping Zhao and colleagues, in their recent paper on a dietary intervention for simple and genetic obesity, discussed evidence for the existence of gut microbiota 'guilds': bacterial genomes within the gut ecosystem that responded to the dietary intervention as a group.
A study by De Palma, et al. used germ-free and specific pathogen-free mouse models to investigate the effects of early-life stress.
Gut microbiota and inflammatory bowel disease: A selection of content from the Gut Microbiota for Health Experts Exchange 2014-2015
24 Aug 2015by Paul Enck
This edition is a summary of the latest scientific research on the gut microbiota and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).