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Gut bacteria in health and disease.

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Although this area holds much promise, more high-quality trials of probiotics, prebiotics, and other microbiota-modifying approaches in digestive disorders are needed, as well as laboratory investigations of their mechanisms of action.
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This article is published in Gastroenterología y Hepatología.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 319 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gut flora.

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Gut microbiota and cardiovascular disease: opportunities and challenges

TL;DR: An interdisciplinary approach is required to shed light on gut bacterial-mediated mechanisms to enable efficacious and high-precision preventative and therapeutic strategies for CAD.
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Gut Microbiota Modification: Another Piece in the Puzzle of the Benefits of Physical Exercise in Health?

TL;DR: Several mechanisms by which physical exercise might cause changes in gut microbiota are proposed, including the promotion of an anti-inflammatory state, reinforcement of the neuromuscular function, and activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
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Effects of flavonoids on intestinal inflammation, barrier integrity and changes in gut microbiota during diet-induced obesity.

TL;DR: A review of the literature to date that has described the protective effects of flavonoid on intestinal inflammation, barrier integrity and gut microbiota in studies conducted using in vivo and in vitro models suggests that flavonoids could exert a protective role against obesity-associated pathologies.
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Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Dynamic Changes of Whole Gut Microbiota in the Acute Phase of Intensive Care Unit Patients

TL;DR: Dynamic changes in gut microbiota at the phylum level of ICU patients during the acute phase were identified by high-throughput DNA sequencing and may be associated with prognosis in critically ill patients.
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Gut microbiota: a key player in health and disease. A review focused on obesity

TL;DR: Targeting microbiota, in order to restore/modulate the microbiota composition with antibiotics, probiotics, prebiotics, or even fecal transplants, is considered as a promising strategy for the development of new solutions for the treatment of obesity.
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An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

TL;DR: It is demonstrated through metagenomic and biochemical analyses that changes in the relative abundance of the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes affect the metabolic potential of the mouse gut microbiota and indicates that the obese microbiome has an increased capacity to harvest energy from the diet.
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Microbial ecology: Human gut microbes associated with obesity

TL;DR: It is shown that the relative proportion of Bacteroidetes is decreased in obese people by comparison with lean people, and that this proportion increases with weight loss on two types of low-calorie diet.
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Diversity of the human intestinal microbial flora.

TL;DR: A majority of the bacterial sequences corresponded to uncultivated species and novel microorganisms, and significant intersubject variability and differences between stool and mucosa community composition were discovered.
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