Main description:

The Microbiome in Health and Disease, Volume 171 in the Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series, provides the most topical, informative and exciting monographs available on a wide variety of research topics. The series includes in-depth knowledge on the molecular biological aspects of organismal physiology, with this release including chapters on Microbiome in health and disease, CNS development and microbiome in infants, A gut feeling in ALS, Microbiome (Virome) and virus infection, Bugs and Drugs: microbiome in medicine metabolism, Immunity, T cells, and microbiome, Salmonella (Bacterial) infection and cancer: of mice and men, and many other highly researched topics.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Microbiome in health and disease Jun Sun 2. The Infant Microbiome and Implications for CNS Development Elaine O. Petrof 3. Microbiome (Virome) and virus infection Lijuan Yuan 4. Gut Microbiota in Reductive Drug Metabolism Young Jeong and Hunwoo Lee 5. Relationship between T cells and microbiota in health and diseases Teruyuki Sano 6. Oral and intestinal bacterial exotoxins: potential linked to carcinogenesis Ikuko Kato and Jun Sun 7. Mucosa microbiome of gastric lesions: fungi and bacteria interactions Yunsheng Yang 8. Nutrition and microbiota Wendy Dahl 9. Microbiota derived factors as drivers of type 1 diabetes Emma Hamilton-Williams 10. Interactions of Probiotics and Prebiotics with the Gut Microbiota Susana Marta Isay Saad 11. Bioinformatics in microbiome yinglin xia 12. Microbiome and cancer treatment: are we ready to apply in clinics? Stephen L. Chan