Gut Bacteria Cospeciating with Insects

Gut Bacteria Cospeciating with Insects

October 2006 | Volume 4 | Issue 10 | e359 | e364 Fusion of two plasma membranes is central to exocytosis, the process by which a cell secretes neurotransmitters, digestive enzymes, and other products. If you believe the simple diagrams in introductory biology textbooks, you’d think this fusion occurs as soon as two membranes touch. Not so—in fact, membrane fusion requires interaction among a co...

P 119: Role of Gut Bacteria on Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is the most common type of dementia.AD includes 60_80% of dementia and most people with AD have more than 65 years old.AD causes losing neuronal activity by abnormal proteins. Plaques of beta-amyloid and tangles of “tau” protein can lead to AD. Recently evidence has found that AD may come from outside of central nerv...

Gut bacteria will revolutionise medicine

Gut Bacteria and Breast Health

The incidence of breast cancer is increasing world-wide. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2009 there were 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,170 deaths from breast cancer in the United States. Currently, breast cancer in women is the second most common type of cancer and the risk of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is approximately 1 in...

Gut Bacteria and Melamine Toxicity

Melamine and its potential toxicity have drawn increased attention since a 2008 crisis in China in which milk, infant formula, and other foods were illegally laced with the chemical in order to increase their apparent protein content. That contamination affected an estimated 294,000 infants and children, with more than 50,000 hospitalizations and at least 6 deaths. In a new analysis of specific...