Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19457423›Full record

ReviewGastroenterology2009

Patterns and scales in gastrointestinal microbial ecology.

J Gray Camp, Michelle Kanther, Ivana Semova, John F Rawls

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In one paragraph

Review in Gastroenterology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evaluating the Risk ofJournal of clinical medicine · 2026
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  9. Microbial Community Profiling Distinguishes Left-Sided and Right-Sided Colon Cancer.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
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  10. Study Bacteria-Host Interactions Using Intestinal Organoids.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019
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  17. Microbiota and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.Seminars in immunopathology · 2014
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  19. Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

J Gray Camp *Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Michelle Kanther *Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Ivana Semova *Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
John F RawlsDepartment of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Funding

UNC-CH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &SUSCEPTIBILITYP30ES010126 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Melissa A. Troester · 2001 to 2026
$36.3M
PILOT AND FEASIBILITY STUDIESP30DK034987 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ROBERT S. SANDLER · 1985 to 2026
$30.5M
NRSA IN GENETICST32GM007092 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SEKELSKY, JEFF J. · 1985 to 2019
$5.9M
Microbial Regulation of Host Nutrient MetabolismR01DK081426 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI RAWLS, JOHN F · 2008 to 2019
$3.9M
UNC Developmental Biology Training ProgramT32HD046369 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MAGNUSON, TERRY R · 2005 to 2009
$1.4M
Microbial regulation of host nutrient metabolism in gnotobiotic zebrafishK01DK073695 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI RAWLS, JOHN F · 2006 to 2009
$510k
NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD046369NIDDK NIH HHS DK073695NIDDK NIH HHS DK081426NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK073695NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK034987NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK081426NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES010126NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007092
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The body surfaces of humans and other animals are colonized at birth by microorganisms. The majority of microbial residents on the human body exist within gastrointestinal (GI) tract communities, where they contribute to many aspects of host biology and pathobiology. Recent technological advances have expanded our ability to perceive the membership and physiologic traits of microbial communities along the GI tract. To translate this information into a mechanistic and practical understanding of host-microbe and microbe-microbe relationships, it is necessary to recast our conceptualization of the GI tract and its resident microbial communities in ecological terms. This review depicts GI microbial ecology in the context of 2 fundamental ecological concepts: (1) the patterns of biodiversity within the GI tract and (2) the scales of time, space, and environment within which we perceive those patterns. We show how this conceptual framework can be used to integrate our existing knowledge and identify important open questions in GI microbial ecology.

Indexed as

BacteriaAnimalsGastrointestinal TractHumansIntestinal MucosaRNA, BacterialRNA, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID19457423
PMCPMC4841941

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