Publications by authors named "M E Perez-Munoz"
Background: Chronic neck pain (CNP) needs attention to its physical, cognitive, and social dimensions.
Objective: We aimed to design a health education program (HEP) with a biopsychosocial approach for patients with CNP.
Methods: A literature search on CNP, health education, and biopsychosocial models was carried out.
Dietary fiber supplements are a strategy to close the 'fiber gap' and induce targeted modulations of the gut microbiota. However, higher doses of fiber supplements cause gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms that differ among individuals. What determines these inter-individual differences is insufficiently understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopment and maturation of the immune system begin and continue throughout the neonatal period. Both the maternal and neonatal gut microbiome influence immune development, but the relative importance of the prenatal and postnatal periods is unclear. In the present study, we characterized immune cell populations in mice in which the timing of microbiome colonization was strictly controlled using gnotobiotic methodology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gut microbes play crucial roles in the development and health of their animal hosts. However, the evolutionary relationships of gut microbes with vertebrate hosts, and the consequences that arise for the ecology and lifestyle of the microbes are still insufficiently understood. Specifically, the mechanisms by which strain-level diversity evolved, the degree by which lineages remain stably associated with hosts, and how their evolutionary history influences their ecological performance remain a critical gap in our understanding of vertebrate-microbe symbiosis.
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- Scientists are debating whether a fetus and its surroundings are home to stable groups of tiny living things called microbes during a healthy pregnancy.
- Recent studies suggest that when they find these microbes, it could be because of mistakes during the testing process, not that the fetus actually has them.
- Understanding these findings is important for learning how our immune system develops and shows that studying tiny living things in places with very few of them can be really tricky, so we need to use different science methods to get it right.