Full Description
The book provides an overview on how the gut microbiome contributes to human health. The readers will get profound knowledge on the connection between intestinal microbiota and immune defense systems. The tools of choice to study the ecology of these highly-specialized microorganism communities such as high-throughput sequencing and metagenomic mining will be presented. In addition the most common diseases associated to the composition of the gut flora are discussed in detail. The book will address researchers, clinicians and advanced students working in biomedicine, microbiology and immunology.
Contents
- Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease: Introduction. - Composition and Function of the Gut Microbiome. - Microbiome and Early Life. - Molecular Microbiome Analysis. - Evolutionary Perspectives on the Human Gut Microbiome. - Microbiome and Diet. - Microbiome and Gut Immunity: The Epithelium. - Microbiome and Gut Immunity: Innate Immune Cells. - Microbiome and Gut Immunity: T Cells. - Microbiome and Gut Immunity: B Cells. - Microbiome and Diseases: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. - Microbiome and Diseases: Allergy. - Microbiome and Diseases: Graft-Versus-Host Disease. - Microbiome and Diseases: Pathogen Infection. - Microbiome and Diseases: Colorectal Cancer. - Microbiome and Diseases: Metabolic Disorders. - Microbiome and Diseases: Hepatic Disorders. - Microbiome and Diseases: Neurological Disorders. - Clinical Implementation of High-Throughput Sequencing. - Fecal Transplantation.- Gnotobiology.
