“The fact that we could alleviate inflammation by adding back a single key bacterial strain, suggests that it could be useful as a probiotic for inflammatory diseases,” said Rolig, who, along with Eisen, is a scientist in the National Institutes of Health-funded Microbial Ecology and Theory of Animals Center for Systems Biology, known as the META Center, which Guillemin heads.
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Article Source: The enteric nervous system promotes intestinal health by constraining microbiota composition
Rolig AS, Mittge EK, Ganz J, Troll JV, Melancon E, et al. (2017) The enteric nervous system promotes intestinal health by constraining microbiota composition. PLOS Biology 15(2): e2000689. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2000689