by Christopher Damman, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Each October, as the days shorten and the air grows crisp, millions of Americans prepare for the beloved—and often sugar-fueled—tradition of Halloween. From jack-o’-lanterns glowing on porches to costumes ranging from the whimsical to the gory, Halloween is a time of playful scares, childhood memories and, of course, candy....
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Does the gut microbiome affect spine health?
(A)–(C) Dynamic lateral lumbar plain radiographs and (D), (E) lumbar T1- and T2-weighted MRI noting spondylolisthesis at L4-L5 and L5-S1 in a 65-year-old female. Credit: JOR SPINE (2024). DOI: 10.1002/jsp2.70005 Are back problems influenced by your gut? Researchers at Rush think there may be a connection. In a paper published in JOR Spine, researchers looked at patients with and without...
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Understanding aging through the lense of gut microbiome
The composition of the gut microbiome exhibits genus-level variations across different age groups. The early-age gut microbiome is shaped by the embryonic environment, type of delivery, and exposure to microbes through breast/formula feeding. During weaning, the microbiome undergoes changes from a simple (less diverse) to a complex (more diverse) microbial mixture and attains stability until...
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Gut microbiome found to influence location of immune cells
September 12, 2024 by Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Images of the colons of conventional (left) and germ free (right) mice showing how bacterial colonization affects the distribution of immune cells along the mouse intestine. CD45 immune cells are show in red, CD3 immune cells are shown in yellow. Immune cells are concentrated close...
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Mice study suggests metabolic diseases may be driven by gut microbiome, loss of ovarian hormones
by Sharita Forrest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Animal characteristics of conventionally raised C57BL/6J mice that underwent either ovariectomy (OVX) or sham (SHM) surgery and fed either a low-fat (LFD) or a high-fat diet (HFD). Final body weight (a) and energy intake (b) at the end of the 12-week study period as well as body weight...
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Gut microbes may determine patients’ response to a drug that delays onset of type 1 diabetes
by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress Teplizumab delays type 1 diabetes (T1D) in at-risk individuals in TN10 trial, but participants respond differently to the treatment. Systemic, non-pathogenic antibody responses to gut bacteria can be quantified by anti-commensal antibody (ACAb) assay. Individuals with higher IgG2 responses to specific gut bacteria are more likely to get early...
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Vegan diet fosters changes in gut microbiome that reduce hot flashes by 95%, finds new study
by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Graphical Abstract. Credit: Complementary Therapies in Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2023.103002 A low-fat vegan diet that includes soy fosters changes in the gut microbiome that decrease postmenopausal vasomotor symptoms, or hot flashes, overall by 95%, according to a new study by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. A vegan diet...
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Dietary supplement modifies gut microbiome—potential implications for bone marrow transplant patients
by Molly Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine Plasma metabolites in historic controls versus recipients of RPS. a, UMAP ordination of median-centered plasma metabolite levels revealed four distinct clusters of metabolites. b, UMAP ordination stratified according to clinical group (historic controls in blue or recipients of RPS in orange), with the largest divergence in overlap at engraftment....
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Gut microbiome discovery could lead to new drug addiction treatments
By Paul McClure August 03, 2023 A study has found a link between the gut microbiome and cocaine use, including the cravings that come following withdrawal Depositphotos A new study has provided the first evidence of a link between the gut microbiome and cocaine use and the cravings that follow withdrawal. The findings open the...
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Alterations in the gut microbiome tied to inflammatory types of arthritis
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Example features and the species encoding the enzymes and pathways involved in the differential encoding of vitamin B processing in inflammatory arthritis. (A) Shown are examples of the most differentially encoded B vitamin pathways and enzymes. (B) Shown are the taxa contributing to vitamin B7 encoding. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2023). DOI:...