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ReviewJournal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea)2018

Current understanding of microbiota- and dietary-therapies for treating inflammatory bowel disease.

Taekil Eom, Yong Sung Kim, Chang Hwan Choi, Michael J Sadowsky, Tatsuya Unno

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Review in Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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55citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 117 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 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Taekil EomSubtropical/tropical Organism Gene Bank, Jeju National University, Jeju, 63243, Republic of Korea.
Yong Sung KimDepartment of Gastroenterology, Wonkwang Digestive Disease Research Institute, Wonkwang University Sanbon Hospital, Gunpo, 15865, Republic of Korea.
Chang Hwan ChoiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea.
Michael J SadowskyBioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55108, USA.
Tatsuya UnnoSubtropical/tropical Organism Gene Bank, Jeju National University, Jeju, 63243, Republic of Korea. tatsu@jejunu.ac.kr.
Jeju National University · KRBiotechnology Institute · USChung-Ang University · KRWonkwang University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a result of chronic inflammation caused, in some part, by dysbiosis of intestinal microbiota, mainly commensal bacteria. Gut dysbiosis can be caused by multiple factors, including abnormal immune responses which might be related to genetic susceptibility, infection, western dietary habits, and administration of antibiotics. Consequently, the disease itself is characterized as having multiple causes, etiologies, and severities. Recent studies have identified >200 IBD risk loci in the host. It has been postulated that gut microbiota interact with these risk loci resulting in dysbiosis, and this subsequently leads to the development of IBD. Typical gut microbiota in IBD patients are characterized with decrease in species richness and many of the commensal, and beneficial, fecal bacteria such as Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes and an increase or bloom of Proteobacteria. However, at this time, cause and effect relationships have not been rigorously established. While treatments of IBD usually includes medications such as corticosteroids, 5-aminosalicylates, antibiotics, immunomodulators, and anti-TNF agents, restoration of gut dysbiosis seems to be a safer and more sustainable approach. Bacteriotherapies (now called microbiota therapies) and dietary interventions are effective way to modulate gut microbiota. In this review, we summarize factors involved in IBD and studies attempted to treat IBD with probiotics. We also discuss the potential use of microbiota therapies as one promising approach in treating IBD. As therapies based on the modulation of gut microbiota becomes more common, future studies should include individual gut microbiota differences to develop personalized therapy for IBD.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacillotaBacteroidetesDysbiosisFatty Acids, VolatileHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMiceProbioticsProteobacteriaSymbiosisTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAnti-Bacterial AgentsFatty Acids, VolatileTumor Necrosis Factor-alphadysbiosisgut microbiotainflammatory bowel diseaseprebioticsprobioticsshort chain fatty acids

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PMID29492876
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