Microbial transmission, colonisation and succession: from pregnancy to infancy

L Xiao, F Zhao - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
The microbiome has been proven to be associated with many diseases and has been used
as a biomarker and target in disease prevention and intervention. Currently, the vital role of …

[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiome immaturity and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

I Peppas, AM Ford, CL Furness, MF Greaves - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common cancer of childhood. Here, we
map emerging evidence suggesting that children with ALL at the time of diagnosis may have …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale microbiome data integration enables robust biomarker identification

L Xiao, F Zhang, F Zhao - Nature Computational Science, 2022 - nature.com
The close association between gut microbiota dysbiosis and human diseases is being
increasingly recognized. However, contradictory results are frequently reported, as …

Longevity of centenarians is reflected by the gut microbiome with youth-associated signatures

S Pang, X Chen, Z Lu, L Meng, Y Huang, X Yu… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
Centenarians are an excellent model to study the relationship between the gut microbiome
and longevity. To characterize the gut microbiome signatures of aging, we conducted a …

[HTML][HTML] A novel peptide protects against diet-induced obesity by suppressing appetite and modulating the gut microbiota

Z Li, B Zhang, N Wang, Z Zuo, H Wei, F Zhao - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
Objective The obesity epidemic and its metabolic complications continue to be a major
global public health threat with limited effective treatments, especially drugs that can be …

[HTML][HTML] The gut microbiome and early-life growth in a population with high prevalence of stunting

RC Robertson, TJ Edens, L Carr, K Mutasa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Stunting affects one-in-five children globally and is associated with greater infectious
morbidity, mortality and neurodevelopmental deficits. Recent evidence suggests that the …

The interplay of gut microbiota between donors and recipients determines the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation

R He, P Li, J Wang, B Cui, F Zhang, F Zhao - Gut Microbes, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a promising treatment for microbiota dysbiosis
associated diseases, such as Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and inflammatory bowel …

Probiotics to improve the gut microbiome in premature infants: are we there yet?

EM Mercer, MC Arrieta - Gut microbes, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Gut microbiome maturation in infants born prematurely is uniquely influenced by the
physiological, clinical, and environmental factors surrounding preterm birth and early life …

[HTML][HTML] Maturational patterns of the infant gut mycobiome are associated with early-life body mass index

MW Gutierrez, EM Mercer, S Moossavi… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Unlike the bacterial microbiome, the role of early-life gut fungi in host metabolism and
childhood obesity development remains poorly characterized. To address this, we …

[HTML][HTML] Lifestyle patterns influence the composition of the gut microbiome in a healthy Chinese population

Y Ren, J Wu, Y Wang, L Zhang, J Ren, Z Zhang… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput sequencing allows for the comprehensive analysis of the human intestinal
microbiota. However, extensive association analyses between the microbiome and lifestyle …