THE INTESTINAL FLORA

Intestinal Flora and Nutrition

Sir,?There is one aspect of study in nutrition which does not yet appear to have been accorded its true value. I refer to the part played by the organisms living inside the alimentary tract of man. To the majority studies on nutrition end at the stage at which the food is Swallowed. Others, more exact, define conditions in which absorption of the ultimate products of digestion is disturbed as f...

Intestinal flora and diet

The topics discussed at the WIRM-V meeting were very broad and interesting, covering a wide field in immunology. Since it is impossible to summarize everything, I will discuss the influence of diet and intestinal flora on immune responses, as this was a recurrent subject throughout the meeting. I will summarize a few presentations (given by E.G. Pamer, C. MacKay, D.R. Littman, Y. Belkaid, R. Ma...

Intestinal Flora and Vitamin B1

Intestinal flora and psoriatic arthritis.

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Diversity of the human intestinal microbial flora.

The human endogenous intestinal microflora is an essential "organ" in providing nourishment, regulating epithelial development, and instructing innate immunity; yet, surprisingly, basic features remain poorly described. We examined 13,355 prokaryotic ribosomal RNA gene sequences from multiple colonic mucosal sites and feces of healthy subjects to improve our understanding of gut microbial diver...