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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1771880724 ISBN 13: 9781771880725

Publisher: Apple Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

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. Included are chapters that examine the following:

· Gut microbiome’s roles in the pathogenesis of obesity and autoimmune disease

· The effect of nutrition on the richness of the microbial community

· The stability of the microbiome to various stressors

· Emerging ways to diagnose diseases using the microbiome

· Exciting prospects for using these microbes to cure disease

This easily accessible reference volume offers a comprehensive guide to this relatively new field of study. Edited by a researcher from Yale University, Health and the Gut: The Emerging Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Disease and Therapeutics is an authoritative and easy-to-use reference, ideal for both researchers in the field and those who wish to gain more information about the impact of gut microbiota on human health.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1771880724
• ISBN 13: 9781771880725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 410
• Editor: Olds William