Human gut microbiota and healthy aging: Recent developments and future prospective
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

The human gut microbiota alters with the aging process. In the first 2-3 years of life, the gut microbiota varies extensively in composition and metabolic functions. After this period, the gut microbiota demonstrates adult-like more stable and diverse microbial species. However, at old age, deterioration of physiological functions of the human body enforces the decrement in count of beneficial species (e.g. Bifidobacteria) in the gut microbiota, which promotes various gut-related diseases (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease). Use of plant-based diets and probiotics/prebiotics may elevate the abundance of beneficial species and prevent gut-related diseases. Still, the connections between diet, microbes, and host are only partially known. To this end, genome-scale metabolic modeling can help to explore these connections as well as to expand the understanding of the metabolic capability of each species in the gut microbiota. This systems biology approach can also predict metabolic variations in the gut microbiota during ageing, and hereby help to design more effective probiotics/prebiotics.

Författare

Manish Kumar

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Parizad Babaei

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Boyang Ji

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Nutrition and healthy aging

2451-9480 (ISSN)

Vol. 4 1 3-16

Styrkeområden

Livsvetenskaper och teknik (2010-2018)

Ämneskategorier

Bioinformatik och systembiologi

DOI

10.3233/NHA-150002

PubMed

28035338

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Skapat

2017-10-07