Our gut microbiota: A long walk to homeostasis

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 3-20

  Dicks, L M T ^a   Geldenhuys, J ^a   Mikkelsen, L S ^b   Brandsborg, E ^b   Marcotte, H ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Bifodan AS   (Denmark)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gut microbiota; Homeostasis; Probiotics; Sequential changes

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INFLAMMASOME; MACROLIDE; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TETRACYCLINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTEROIDETES; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMMENSAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DYSBIOSIS; FIRMICUTES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUCUS SECRETION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BIODIVERSITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85041227643     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/bm2017.0066     Document Type: Article

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