News tagged with gut microflora
Antimicrobial antibodies in celiac disease: Trick or treat?
Anti-microbial antibody formation has been reported in celiac disease. Relatively high positivity rates were observed for the conventional antibodies, for example, ASCA, anti-OmpW, and anti-I2, and they were known to decrease ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Researchers find reducing fishmeal hinders growth of farmed fish
When it comes to the food used to raise fish in aquaculture "farms," it seems that you may get what you pay for. In a new study, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and ...
May 03, 2012 |
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Antibiotic disrupts termite microflora, reducing fertility, longevity
The microbial flora of the termite gut are necessary both for cellulose digestion and normal reproduction, and feeding the insects antibiotics can interfere in these processes, according to a paper in the July issue of the ...
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Artificial sweetener leaves lingering aftertaste in the environment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, the global use of artificial sweeteners in foods has dramatically increased. A new study led by Cesar Torres, and Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown – researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State ...
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Dietary intervention can prevent the disease process leading to Type 1 diabetes
A Finnish study confirms the hypothesis that infant feeding plays a role in the initiation of the disease process leading to type 1 diabetes in children carrying increased genetic disease risk.
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Nov 10, 2010 |
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How the parasitic worm has turned
(PhysOrg.com) -- Parasites in the gut such as whipworm have an essential role in developing a healthy immune system, University of Manchester scientists have found.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Bacteria Wins First Round Against Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of British scientists and their Agricultural Research Service (ARS) colleague used a benign bacterium from the human gut to develop a microbe that someday might help treat inflammatory ...
Dec 31, 2009 |
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Just how friendly are those probiotics in your food?
Ready for some live, active cultures in your chocolate? How about your breakfast cereal? Probiotics, the so-called "friendly" bacteria with health benefits, have busted out of the dairy case and are colonizing other areas ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Our microbes, ourselves
In terms of diversity and sheer numbers, the microbes occupying the human gut easily dwarf the billions of people inhabiting the Earth. Numbering in the tens of trillions and representing many thousands of ...
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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Study links gastric bypass surgery to increased risk of kidney stones
[B]Procedure associated with kidney stone formation earlier than previously reported[/B] CHICAGO (June 26, 2008) – Morbidly obese patients who undergo a particular type of gastric bypass surgery called Roux-en-Y gastric byp ...
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Intestinal Bacteria Promote and Prevent Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Scientists search for drug candidates in some very unlikely places. Not only do they churn out synthetic compounds in industrial-scale laboratories, but they also scour coral reefs and scrape tree bark in the hope of stumbling ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 28, 2008 |
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