The “Gut Feeling”: Breaking Down the Role of Gut Microbiome in Multiple Sclerosis

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 109-125

  Freedman, Samantha N ^a,b   Shahi, Shailesh K ^b   Mangalam, Ashutosh K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE); gut microbiome; host microbe interaction; immune response; microbial metabolism; Multiple sclerosis (MS)

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID; CHOLINE; MUCIN; PHYTOESTROGEN; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TRYPTOPHAN; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

AUTOIMMUNITY; BILE ACID METABOLISM; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DYSBIOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLINE; DYSBIOSIS; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; MUCINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHYTOESTROGENS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 85036533168     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-017-0588-x     Document Type: Review

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