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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2016

Biodiversity of Intestinal Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Healthy Population.

Marika Mikelsaar, Epp Sepp, Jelena Štšepetova, Epp Songisepp, Reet Mändar

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marika MikelsaarInstitute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Europe, Estonia. marika.mikelsaar@ut.ee.
Epp SeppInstitute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Europe, Estonia.
Jelena ŠtšepetovaInstitute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Europe, Estonia.
Epp SongiseppBio-Competence Centre of Healthy Dairy Products, Europe, Estonia.
Reet MändarInstitute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Europe, Estonia.
University of Tartu · EEBio-Competence Centre of Healthy Dairy Products (Estonia) · EE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complex ecosystem of the gastrointestinal tract involves tight interrelations among host cells, diet, and billions of microbes, both beneficial and opportunistic pathogens. In spite of advanced genomic, metagenomic, and metabonomic approaches, knowledge is still quite limited regarding the biodiversity of beneficial microbiota, including Lactobacillus spp., and its impact on the main biomarkers of general health. In this paper, Lactobacillus biodiversity is demonstrated through its taxonomy, function, and host-microbial interactions. Its prevalence, composition, abundance, intertwined metabolic properties, and relation to host age, genotype, and socioeconomic factors are reviewed based on the literature and original research experience. The species richness, e.g., the biodiversity of gut microbiota, provides the host with a variety of metabolically active species and strains that predict their response for different health conditions and extrinsic interventions. Metabolically active and safe Lactobacillus species and specific strains with particular functional properties increase the biodiversity of the whole intestinal microbiota. The elaborated principles for effective application of probiotics are discussed, aimed at regulating the composition of microbiota simultaneously with blood and urine biomarkers at the borderline of normality. This approach targets the impact of probiotic strains to maintenance of health with anti-infectious, cardiovascular, and metabolic support.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeBiodiversityGastrointestinal TractHumansLactic AcidLactobacillusProbioticsLactic AcidFunctional propertiesHealth maintenanceHumanLactobacilliMetaboliteProbiotic elaborationSpecies diversityTaxonomy

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PMID27167411
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