[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiome: profound implications for diet and disease

RD Hills, BA Pontefract, HR Mishcon, CA Black… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
The gut microbiome plays an important role in human health and influences the
development of chronic diseases ranging from metabolic disease to gastrointestinal …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into the interactions between Blastocystis, the gut microbiota, and host immunity

L Deng, L Wojciech, NRJ Gascoigne, G Peng… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The human gut microbiota is a diverse and complex ecosystem that is involved in beneficial
physiological functions as well as disease pathogenesis. Blastocystis is a common protistan …

Associations between gut microbiota and common luminal intestinal parasites

CR Stensvold, M van der Giezen - Trends in Parasitology, 2018 - cell.com
The development and integration of DNA-based methods in research and clinical
microbiology laboratories have enabled standardised and comprehensive detection and …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate and sensitive detection of microbial eukaryotes from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing

AL Lind, KS Pollard - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Microbial eukaryotes are found alongside bacteria and archaea in natural
microbial systems, including host-associated microbiomes. While microbial eukaryotes are …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of Blastocystis Infection: A Review of Data from Poland in Relation to Other Reports

M Rudzińska, K Sikorska - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Blastocystis is a common gut protist of humans and various animals worldwide, with a high
level of genetic diversity. Neither its zoonotic potential and transmission routes nor its …

Molecular hydrogen metabolism: a widespread trait of pathogenic bacteria and protists

SL Benoit, RJ Maier, RG Sawers… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pathogenic microorganisms use various mechanisms to conserve energy in host tissues
and environmental reservoirs. One widespread but often overlooked means of energy …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental colonization with Blastocystis ST4 is associated with protective immune responses and modulation of gut microbiome in a DSS-induced colitis …

L Deng, L Wojciech, CW Png, EY Koh, TT Aung… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Background Blastocystis is a common gut protistan parasite in humans and animals
worldwide, but its interrelationship with the host gut microbiota and mucosal immune …

Where the minor things are: a pan-eukaryotic survey suggests neutral processes may explain much of minor intron evolution

GE Larue, SW Roy - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Spliceosomal introns are gene segments removed from RNA transcripts by
ribonucleoprotein machineries called spliceosomes. In some eukaryotes a second …

[PDF][PDF] Blastocystis.

CR Stensvold, KSW Tan… - Trends in …, 2020 - researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
Summary (996/1000 characters) 8 Blastocystis colonizes the large intestine and divides by
binary fission. In vitro, Blastocystis can 9 adhere to intestinal mucin and secrete cysteine …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of Blastocystis and its association with Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio in clinically healthy and metabolically ill subjects

CM Yañez, AM Hernández, AM Sandoval… - BMC microbiology, 2021 - Springer
Background Blastocystis is a typical anaerobic colon protist in humans with controversial
pathogenicity and has relation with alterations in the intestinal microbiota composition …