Research led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine found that introducing a single bacterium called segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) to the gut microbiota causes detrimental effects ...
Jan 7, 2022
0
83
A team of researchers with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reports that immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies bind to specific species of related gut bacteria in mice. They published their results in Science Immunology.
The increase of intestinal permeability is associated with factors such as aging, food allergies and intolerances and unhealthy diets. This alteration causes a reduction of the gut integrity barrier that triggers the transit ...
Oct 26, 2021
0
17
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 ...
Jan 5, 2016
0
14
The composition of microbiota found in the gut influences how susceptible mice are to respiratory virus infections and the severity of these infections, according to researchers from the Center for Translational Antiviral ...
Jan 30, 2024
0
78
Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that gastric bypass surgery ...
Jul 10, 2012
0
0
Can the consumption of fatty foods change your behavior and your brain?
Mar 26, 2015
0
15
Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, describes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, two chronic diseases that cause inflammation in the intestines. IBD, which affects about 3 million adults in the United States, is an autoimmune ...
Apr 7, 2023
0
24
The trillions of microbes living in a mammal's intestine play an important role in the host's metabolism and immunity. The composition of microbiota is maintained by antimicrobial proteins secreted from intestinal cells. ...
Oct 25, 2017
2
7
Exposure to antibiotics in utero and infancy can lead to an irreversible loss of regulatory T-cells in the colon—a valuable component of the immune system's response toward allergens in later life—after only six months, ...
Apr 1, 2021
0
81
