Engineered Probiotic Co-Culture Eases Antibiotic-Linked Diarrhea in Mice
A mouse study found that pairing wild-type Lactiplantibacillus plantarum C8 with an LPxTG-overexpressing engineered strain outperformed single strains in restoring ...
Tag: gut microbiota
Gut microbes may shape how strongly people respond to mRNA vaccines
A new review synthesizes evidence that gut microbiota composition and metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids modulate immune responses to ...
Gut Microbiomes Diverge Between Wild and Semi-Captive Przewalski’s Gazelles Across Age Stages
A new sequencing study finds that habitat and age jointly shape the gut microbiota of endangered Przewalski's gazelles, with wild ...
Gut Microbiome Gene Score Predicts Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Response in New Study
A computational study built a gut microbiota–metabolite–host gene score that stratified rheumatoid arthritis patients into two molecular subtypes and predicted ...
Review maps how glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may protect cartilage
A new review in Amino Acids synthesizes evidence on how glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin sulfate act on cartilage, interact with ...
Season beats diet: temperature drives farmed seabream microbiomes
A longitudinal study of farmed gilthead seabream found that seasonal change, not diet, was the dominant force shaping gut and ...
Diabetes Surgery Reshapes Gut Microbes in Rats, With SADI-S Edging Out Sleeve Gastrectomy
In diabetic rats, both SADI-S and sleeve gastrectomy lowered glucose measures, but the procedures produced distinct gut microbiota changes linked ...
Gut Microbe Metabolite May Explain How Butyrate Protects the High-Fat-Diet Colon
In diet-induced obese mice, dietary butyrate improved colonic barrier markers, and fecal microbiota transfer experiments linked the benefit to Bacteroides ...
Mouse Studies Find No Toxicity or Allergenicity Signals for Recombinant Soybean Hemoglobin
A new mouse study reports that recombinant soybean hemoglobin, used to give plant-based meat a meat-like color and flavor, showed ...
Eucommia Leaf Flavonoids Ease Acetaminophen Liver Injury in Mice via Gut Microbiota
A flavonoid-rich extract of Eucommia ulmoides leaves protected mice from acetaminophen-induced liver injury by reshaping gut microbiota and restoring microbial ...
Gut microbes shape how well chemotherapy works in cancer patients
A review in Discover Oncology describes how the gut microbiota can modulate chemotherapy efficacy and resistance through drug sequestration, metabolic ...
Captive sika deer and fallow deer share a largely conserved gut microbiome
A metagenomic study of 22 captive deer at Yinchuan City Zoo found shared dominant gut bacteria between sika and fallow ...
Gut microbe metabolite worsens PCOS-like ovarian dysfunction under metabolic stress
A study links the gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis and its metabolite indole-3-acetic acid to PCOS-like ovarian abnormalities that emerge only ...
Beyond Blood Sugar: How Type 2 Diabetes Research Is Being Rewritten
A new narrative review argues that chronic inflammation, gut microbiota dysbiosis, and mitochondrial dysfunction are reshaping type 2 diabetes care ...
Food additives keep food safe, but chronic exposure raises new health questions
A new comprehensive review argues that food additives remain essential for safety and shelf life while chronic exposure to certain ...
Gut Microbe Metabolites Sharpen Prediction of Stroke Worsening After Thrombolysis
A prospective single-center study found that adding gut-derived tryptophan metabolites and interferon gamma to blood pressure and glucose raised the ...
Scoping review finds intestinal microplastic research dominated by simplified lab models
A scoping review of 90 studies finds intestinal micro- and nanoplastic research heavily concentrated in Caco-2 in vitro models, polystyrene ...
Gut-organ axis research mapped over 25 years reveals major gaps in translation
A 25-year bibliometric review in TransMed finds gut-organ axis research unevenly developed, with several axes lacking interventional trials and current ...
Herbal Medicine Lowers Blood Pressure in Mice While Expanding Gut Microbe Dubosiella
Achyranthes bidentata lowered blood pressure and eased kidney injury in hypertensive mice while expanding the gut bacterium Dubosiella and remodeling ...
Research report: Hericium erinaceus polysaccharide ameliorates spatial working memory impairment and intestinal barrier dysfunction in high-fat high-sucrose diet-fed mic
A lion's mane mushroom polysaccharide partially reversed metabolic, intestinal barrier, and spatial memory deficits in mice fed a high-fat, high-sucrose ...
