The Enteric Microbiota

Francisco Guarner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

88 Seiten

2010
Morgan & Claypool Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-61504-198-5 (ISBN)

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The human gut is the natural habitat for a diverse and dynamic microbial ecosystem having an important impact on health and disease. Bacteria have lived in and on animal hosts since multicellular life evolved about 1 billion years ago. Hosts provide habitat and nutrition to the microbial communities and derive many benefits from their guests that contribute with metabolic (recovery of energy and nutrients), defensive (barrier effect against invaders) and trophic (immune regulation, neuro-endocrine development) functions. Several disease states or disorders have been associated with changes in the composition or function of the enteric microbiota, including inflammatory bowel diseases, obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Probiotics and prebiotics can be used to improve symbiosis between enteric microbiota and host, or correct states of dysbiosis.

Microbial Communities
Host-Microbe Interactions in the Gut
Composition of the Human Enteric Microbiota
Acquisition of the Enteric Microbiota
Dysfunction of the Enteric Microbiota
Therapeutic Manipulation of the Enteric Microbiota
References
Author Biography

Reihe/Serie	Colloquium Series on Integrated Systems Physiology
Verlagsort	San Rafael
Sprache	englisch
Maße	187 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Gastroenterologie
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
ISBN-10	1-61504-198-2 / 1615041982
ISBN-13	978-1-61504-198-5 / 9781615041985
Zustand	Neuware