Health and the Gut: The Emerging Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Disease and Therapeutics

ISBN-13: 9781774632048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 410 str.

William Olds

Opis

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The study of the intestinal ecosystem of bacteria in the human gut—the gut microbiome—is a new field that is rapidly evolving. This book serves as an introduction to some of the new and exciting research that is being done in this field. Edited by a researcher from Yale Univer

Spis treści

Introduction. Part I: Introduction: The Rainforest in the Gut. Part II: Microbiome's Role in Obesity. Part III: Inflammation and Innate Immunity. Part IV: Nutrition's Effect on the Microbiome. Part V: Using the Microbiome to Identify and Cure Disease. Index.

O autorze

William Olds is a graduate student at Yale University in the laboratory of Tian Xu. His work focuses on satiety signals from the gut and how that communication to the brain breaks down in the pathogenesis of obesity.