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Another interesting review that is in a CLOSED ACCESS paper. The barrier to casual reading is too high.
Yet one more data point on the bugs-gut story. [This is not an open access article. Boo. Hiss.]
I’ve seen a ton of papers on “probiotics”, but I think this is the first I’ve heard of “prebiotics”. There is mounting data about the effect of gut bugs on our own systems, and there is a growing set of data on how our diet affects our gut bugs. A wee Google search shows that there’s been a lot of papers data on specific foods that selectively promote the growth of specific gut bugs. Hm, this is really interesting. It all seems to be coming together. My suggestion: if you’re a grad student or a post-doc in biology, human gut microbiology and ecology is gonna be a big topic in the near future. It’s gonna change the face of medicine.
I’ve seen a few papers talking about immunoregulation by gut bacteria. Here’s a report on neuroregulation. Pretty cool. [via @microbeworld] "The findings add to the growing understanding of the complex relationship between our health and the bacteria living in and on our bodies. They also add to the growing conviction that it might one day be possible to curb diarrhea, and prevent other diseases, by making sure our guts have the right complement of bacteria." I saw a Nature paper on how <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v469/n7331/full/nature09646.html">Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate.</a> Both these papers suggest that there may be ways to control bacterial pathogenesis with other bacteria. Can you say probiotics? Bookmarked in Delicious.
Another interesting finding teasing out the importance of gut bacteria in human health. An interesting outcome would be creating a probiotic to prevent or recover from malnutrition. Bookmarked in Delicious. |
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