by Frontiers Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain You are likely familiar with the serious consequences of anorexia for those who experience it, but you might not be aware that the disorder may not be purely psychological. A recent review from researchers at the University of Oxford in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychiatryexamines the evidence that gut microbes could play...
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 8, 2020) — New research shows that the microorganisms in our gut could help protect brain cells from damage caused by inflammation after a stroke. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience by researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine and...
by Particle Could autoimmune and allergic conditions like Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis or type 1 diabetes one day be treated with microbes in your gut? Inside your gut is a collective of bacteria, fungi and viruses known as the gut microbiota. Amazingly, they start to develop immediately after we’re born. With our mother’s bacteria quickly...
Inflammation is one the ways the body protects itself against outside invaders. And since the digestive system contains a dense array of bacteria, you might expect the body’s immune response to be in constant overdrive as it confronts a mass of gut microbes. But that’s not the case, says UO biologist Karen Guillemin. “One of...
