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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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Host dietary specialization and neutral assembly shape gut bacterial communities of wild dragonflies

TL;DR: The patterns of host dietary specialization and spatial and temporal variation suggest a strong role of passive processes in shaping the gut bacterial community, contradict the pervasive expectation that host-imposed selection shapes gut microbial communities.
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Clinical Potential of Microbial Strains, Used in Fermentation for Probiotic Food, Beverages and in Synbiotic Supplements, as Psychobiotics for Cognitive Treatment through Gut–Brain Signaling

TL;DR: The studies have concluded that the gut–brain axis can be manipulated with the intake of probiotic foods or synbiotic supplements containing specific probiotic strains accompanied with their complementary prebiotics for the enhanced sustainability of healthy GIT microflora.
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Progress in Our Understanding of the Gut Microbiome: Implications for the Clinician

TL;DR: Clinical important examples of a central role for microbiota-host interactions in disease pathogenesis have emerged and many more have been postulated but await confirmation in appropriately powered and conducted studies.
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Alterations of Gut Microbiota by Overnutrition Impact Gluconeogenic Gene Expression and Insulin Signaling.

TL;DR: In this paper, an inhibition of P300 acetyltransferase activity by chemical inhibitors improved insulin signaling and alleviated hyperglycemia in obese mice, leading to increased expression of rate-limiting gluconeogenic gene G6pc and Pck1 and abnormal liver glucose production.
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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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