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Potential for Realizing Next-Generation Nutritional Therapy Targeting the Metabolic Preferences of Gut Microbiota—Suppressing the Growth of Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria in the Inflamed Gut by Controlling Dietary Amino Acids

Publish: November 07, 2019
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2019/11/07

Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences

An international collaborative research group, led by Dr. Nobuhiko Kamada and Dr. Sho Kitamoto of the Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan School of Medicine (Michigan, USA), Project Professor Shinji Fukuda of the Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences (Tsuruoka, Yamagata), and Professor Nicolas Barnich of the Université Clermont Auvergne (Auvergne, France), has revealed that controlling dietary amino acids is crucial for suppressing the growth of potentially pathogenic bacteria in the inflamed gut. The details of this research were published in the online edition of the international scientific journal Nature Microbiology on November 4, 2019 (US Eastern Time).

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