Nutrition, Microbiota and Noncommunicable Diseases

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: 16S rRNA gene profiling; abdominal pain; ACTH; aerobic exercise training; alanine aminotransferase; allergy; amlodipine; AMP-activated protein kinase; anorexia; antibiotic; atherosclerosis; autism spectrum disorders; bacterial communities; bacterial vaginosis; behavior; Biology, life sciences; biomarker discovery; bone health; bowel function; brisk walking; butyrate; cardiometabolic risk factors; cardiorespiratory fitness; cardiovascular diseases; choline; chronic health conditions; chrono-nutrition; circadian; circadian rhythm; ClpB; co-occurring conditions; corticosterone; critical illness; developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD); dysbiosis; Enterobacteriaceae; feeding timing; fetus; food restriction; gastrointestinal disorders; gastrointestinal microbiome; gut bacteriome; gut microbiome; gut microbiota; habitual diets; high fat diet; hormone replacement therapy; hypertension; immune function; infancy; intestinal Bacteroides; intestinal microbiota; inulin; ischemia-reperfusion injury; kefir; Lactobacillus reuteri V3401; linear mixed models; lipid metabolism; lipid metabolome; liver transplantation; Mathematics and Science; metabolic syndrome; metronidazole; microbiome; microbiota; motility; n/a; newborn; nonnutritive sweeteners; nutrient-sensing signals; nutrients; nutrition; nutritional status; obesity; Optifast; oral microbiota; otitis media; partial hepatectomy; placenta; prebiotic; prebiotics; prebiotics and probiotics; pregnancy; probiotics; propionate; qPCR; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; respiratory tract infections; risk factors; satiety; sepsis; short chain fatty acids; sinusitis; soy protein; sperm quality; sugar alcohol; supplemented nutrition; sweetening agents; trimethylamine; trimethylamine n-oxide; trunk muscle training; vaginal dysbiosis; vaginal microbiome; weight management; Western diet; zebrafish
• ISBN: 9783039369164; 3039369172; 9783039369171; 3039369164
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03936-917-1

Health is defined as “the state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease”. Surprisingly, the words “microbes” or “microorganism” are missing in this definition. The regulation of gut microbiota is mediated by an enormous quantity of aspects, such as microbiological factors, host characteristics, diet patterns, and environmental variables. Some protective, structural, and metabolic functions have been reported for gut microbiota, and these functions are related to the regulation of homeostasis and host health. Host defense against pathogens is, in part, mediated through gut microbiota action and requires intimate interpretation of the current microenvironment and discrimination between commensal and occasional bacteria. The present Special Issue provides a summary of the progress on the topic of intestinal microbiota and its important role in human health in different populations. This Special Issue will be of great interest from a clinical and public health perspective. Nevertheless, more studies with more samples and comparable methods are necessary to understand the actual function of intestinal microbiota in disease development and health maintenance.