Gut Bacteria Mediate Nutrient Availability in Diets.

gut microbes play important roles in host nutritional physiology. However, these associations are often indirect, and studies typically are in the context of specialized nutritional conditions, making it difficult to discern how microbiome-mediated impacts translate to physiologically relevant conditions, in the laboratory or nature. In this study, we quantified changes in dietary nutrients due to gut bacteria on three artificial diets and a natural diet of grapes.

Meta-analysis of Diets Used in Microbiome Research and Introduction of the Dietary Composition Calculator (DDCC).

Nutrition is a major factor influencing many aspects of physiology. However, a wide range of diets, many of which are termed "standard" in the literature, are utilized for research, leading to inconsistencies in reporting of nutrition-dependent phenotypes across the field. This is especially evident in microbiome studies, as diet has a pivotal role in microbiome composition and resulting host-microbe interactions.

Microbiomes as modulators of Drosophila melanogaster homeostasis and disease.

Drosophila melanogaster harbors a simple gut microbial community, or microbiome, that regulates several facets of its physiology. As a result, the host employs multiple mechanisms of maintaining control over its microbiome in an effort to promote overall organismal homeostasis. Perturbations to the balance between microbiome and host can result in states of instability or disease, making maintenance of microbial homeostasis a fundamental physiologic aspect of D.

Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction: Influence of culture and place.

This study explored illness narratives following a myocardial infarction (MI) in French Canadians. Qualitative interviews were completed using the McGill Illness Narrative Interview with 51 patients following a first MI. Content analysis of interviews suggested that the heart was perceived as a receptacle that contained an accumulation of life's ordeals, negative emotions and family traumas.

Testis cancer: a 20-year epidemiological review of the experience at a regional military medical facility.

Purpose: Testis cancer is the most common solid malignancy in the young adult population and the incidence in this population is increasing. We present a 20-year epidemiological review of testis cancers treated at our institution.

Materials And Methods: The records of testis cancer cases diagnosed between January 1988 and June 2007 were reviewed.