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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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Human gut microbiota/microbiome in health and diseases: a review

TL;DR: The role of gut microbiota in maintaining host health is clarified and how nutritional and environmental factors affect the gut microbial structure and function is investigated.
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Gut microbiome and metabolic syndrome

TL;DR: Modification of gut microbiota via prebiotics, probiotics or other dietary interventions has provided evidence to support a possible beneficial effect of interventions targeting gut microbiota modulation to treat components or complications of metabolic syndrome.
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Disturbance of the gut microbiota in early-life selectively affects visceral pain in adulthood without impacting cognitive or anxiety-related behaviors in male rats

TL;DR: A temporary disruption of the gut microbiota in early-life results in very specific and long-lasting changes in visceral sensitivity in male rats, a hallmark of stress-related functional disorders of the brain-gut axis such as irritable bowel disorder.
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Repeat Treatment With Rifaximin Is Safe and Effective in Patients With Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome

TL;DR: In a phase 3 study of patients with relapsing symptoms of IBS-D, repeat rifaximin treatment was efficacious and well tolerated and significant improvements were noted for prevention of recurrence, durable response, and bowel movement urgency.
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Gut microbiota in neurodegenerative disorders.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the current understanding of the role of gut microbiota in neurodegenerative disorders and possible intervention strategies and reveals that intake of probiotics may help in the integrity of intestinal and BBB thus ameliorating the above neurodegenersative disorders.
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Obesity alters gut microbial ecology

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The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that conventionalization of adult germ-free C57BL/6 mice with a normal microbiota harvested from the distal intestine (cecum) of conventionally raised animals produces a 60% increase in body fat content and insulin resistance within 14 days despite reduced food intake.
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Host-Bacterial Mutualism in the Human Intestine

TL;DR: New studies are revealing how the gut microbiota has coevolved with us and how it manipulates and complements the authors' biology in ways that are mutually beneficial.
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Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease

TL;DR: Discovery of a relationship between gut-flora-dependent metabolism of dietary phosphatidylcholine and CVD pathogenesis provides opportunities for the development of new diagnostic tests and therapeutic approaches for atherosclerotic heart disease.
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