Gastrointestinal Microbes: Implications for Health and Disease
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2025 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal; gut-intestine; microbiota; metablism; apetite; gut hormone; nutrients; physics; reproduction; ovary; uterus; puberty; sexal behavior; fertility
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The gut microbiota has gained a high degree of attention in recent decades in terms of its function, such as to degrade and absorb nutrients, as a gut barrier, and a molecular signal as a linkage between the inner gut and extraintestinal tissue, including the brain, liver, and reproductive organs (ovaries and testes), which leads to host health or disease. Its metabolites and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are commonly known to be used for gut health and energy recycling by the regulation of the gut ecosystem, pH value, gut epithelium regeneration, and nutrients metabolism. Both of them are developed as probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics for practical use in both humans and animals. Numerous relevant studies have been conducted; however, the scientific ideas and methodologies are becoming homogeneous, and the results are not stable , even with the same microbial strain, and particularly, the underlying mechanisms have not been clarified yet. On the other hand, because of a shortage of feedstuffs to substitute corn and soy bean meal worldwide, a large amount of agricultural byproducts, food industry byproducts, Chinese medicine residues, as well as food leftover from restaurants are being treated by those probiotics to improve their nutrients level and decrease antinutritional factors or toxins, while the roles, efficiency, cost, and technologies needed to incorporate them into conventional diets should be emphasized.
In this Special Issue of IJMS, novel scientific strategies, experimental designs, and analytical technologies on the widely understood topic of gut microbiota are welcome to be submitted.
Prof. Dr. Suqin Hang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal
- gut
- microbiota
- gut hormone
- nutrients
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