Sulfur is both crucial to life and a potential threat to health. While colonic sulfur metabolism
mediated by eukaryotic cells is relatively well studied, much less is known about sulfur …

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterised
by superficial mucosal ulceration, rectal bleeding, diarrhoea, and abdominal pain. In …

Dysregulation of the inflammatory response in humans can lead to various inflammatory
diseases, like asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. The innate branch of the immune system …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises primarily the chronic relapsing inflammatory
disorders, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, with the former affecting any part of the …

OBJECTIVE To assess whether there is a true effect of smoking on the 2 most prevalent
forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Crohn disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) …

AIM: To compare the anti-inflammatory properties of butyrate with two other SCFAs, namely
acetate and propionate, which have less well-documented effects on inflammation …

Deregulation of intestinal immune responses seems to have a principal function in the
pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease,,,. The gut epithelium is critically involved in the …

The human intestine is colonized by an estimated 100 trillion bacteria. Some of these
bacteria are essential for normal physiology, whereas others have been implicated in the …

The human superorganism is a conglomerate of mammalian and microbial cells, with the
latter estimated to outnumber the former by ten to one and the microbial genetic repertoire …

The benefits of probiotics have been recognized and explored for over a century. The
pioneering work of Tissier and Moro was elaborated in the Metchnikoff's theory of longevity …