Archaebiotics: Proposed therapeutic use of archaea to prevent trimethylaminuria and cardiovascular disease

Gut Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-10

  Brugère, Jean François ^a   Borrel, Guillaume ^a,b   Gaci, Nadia ^a   Tottey, William ^a   O'Toole, Paul W ^b   Malpuech Brugère, Corinne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c INRA and University of Auvergne   (France)

Author keywords

Archaebiotics; Cardiovascular disease (CVD); Choline; L carnitine; Methanomassiliicoccus spp; Thermoplasmatarelated methanogens; TMA; TMAO; Trimethylaminuria (TMAU); Vaginosis

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE; METHYLAMINE; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLIC DISORDER; METHANOBREVIBACTER SMITHII; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PREVALENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRIMETHYLAMINURIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; URINE;

ARCHAEA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; METHYLAMINES; MICROBIOTA; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85052274144     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.26749     Document Type: Article

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