Full Description
This book reviews recent knowledge of the role of gut microbiome in health and disease. It covers extensive topics for several diseases, including metabolic-related diseases, allergies, gastrointestinal diseases, psychiatric diseases, and cancer, while also discussing therapeutic approaches by microbiota modification. Comprehensive and cutting-edge, Gut Microbiome-Related Diseases and Therapies deepens a reader's theoretical expertise in gut microbiome.
Graduate and postdoctoral students, medical doctors, and biomedical researchers will benefit from this book.
Contents
1. The Human Microbiome.- 2. In silico metagenomics analysis.- 3. Gut microbiome and Gastrointestinal Disorders.- 4. Gut Microbiome and Cancer.- 5. Gut microbiome, diabetes and obesity: Complex Interplay of Physiology- 6. Gut Microbiota in Obesity and Bariatric Surgery: Where do we stand?.- 7. Gut microbiome and mental stress-related disorders: The interplay of microbial endocrinology.- 8. Chapter 8. The Gut Microbiome in Serious Mental Illnesses.- 9. The controversial interplay of gut microbiome and reproductive function in humans.- 10. Gut microbiome on allergies.
