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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine

The role of the microbiota in ageing: current state and perspectives.

Denise B Lynch, Ian B Jeffery, Paul W O'Toole

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Patchouli Ethanol ExtractAging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) · 2025
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  4. Mitochondrial Dynamics in Stem Cells and Differentiation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Denise B LynchSchool of Microbiology, University College Cork, Ireland; Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Ireland.
Ian B Jeffery
Paul W O'Toole

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledSince the application of high-throughput technologies to investigate complex microbial communities, alterations in the human gut microbiota have been associated with an increasing number of diseases and conditions. This field of research has developed into an area of intense study which is quite different to the microbial investigations that have preceded it in terms of both the broadness of the area of research and the complexity of the analyses. In this review, we discuss gut microbiota changes observed in ageing in the context of the physiological changes that accompany senescence, examine what correlations can be established or inferred, and we discuss what key questions remain to be answered in the field. WIREs Syst Biol Med 2015, 7:131-138. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1293 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. CONFLICT OF INTEREST: PWOT is funded by a nonrestrictive research award from General Mills Inc.

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Models, BiologicalAgingGastrointestinal MicrobiomeGastrointestinal TractHumans

Identifiers

PMID25777986
PMCPMC4406138

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