Gut microbiota encompasses a wide variety of commensal microorganisms consisting of
trillions of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. This microbial population coexists in symbiosis with …

Probiotics and prebiotics are microbiota-management tools for improving host health. They
target gastrointestinal effects via the gut, although direct application to other sites such as …

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), the main metabolites produced by bacterial fermentation of
dietary fibre in the gastrointestinal tract, are speculated to have a key role in microbiota–gut …

Gut microbiota, a collection of microorganisms that live within gastrointestinal tract, provides
crucial signaling metabolites for the physiological of hosts. In healthy state, gut microbiota …

Stress, a ubiquitous part of daily human life, has varied biological effects which are
increasingly recognized as including modulation of commensal microorganisms residing in …

The 2017 annual symposium organized by the University Medical Center Groningen in The
Netherlands focused on the role of the gut microbiome in human health and disease …

Since the early days of the intestinal microbiota research, mouse models have been used
frequently to study the interaction of microbes with their host. However, to translate the …

ABSTRACT Inulin-type fructans (ITF), including short-chain fructooligosaccharides (scFOS),
oligofructose, and inulin, are commonly used fibers that are widely regarded as prebiotic for …

The gut microbiota is essential to health and has recently become a target for live bacterial
cell biotherapies for various chronic diseases including metabolic syndrome, diabetes …

Several lines of evidence suggest that brain function and behaviour are influenced by
microbial metabolites. Key products of the microbiota are short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) …