T. Van de Wiele

TL;DR: It is found that a selective gut microbiota change controls and increases endogenous GLP-2 production, and consequently improves gut barrier functions by a GLP1-2-dependent mechanism, contributing to the improvement of Gut barrier functions during obesity and diabetes.

TL;DR: This work assessed to what extent fructans of different degrees of polymerization (DP) differ in their prebiotic effectiveness towards in vitro microbial communities from the proximal and distal colon.

TL;DR: Data indicate that the coating of the probiotics in chocolate is an excellent solution to protect them from environmental stress conditions and for optimal delivery, and could act as a trigger for new research to identify new balanced matrices.

TL;DR: AXOS supplementation significantly increased the amount of health‐promoting lactobacilli as well as of Bacteroides–Prevotella and Clostridium coccoides–Eubacterium rectale groups, concluding that AXOS are promising candidates to modulate the microbial metabolism in the distal colon.

TL;DR: In this view, experiments were conducted in which the removal of 17alpha-ethynylestradiol (EE2), a synthetic and persistent estrogen, from water was monitored in three upstream bioreactors filled with sand, granulated activated carbon (GAC) and MnO(2) granules.