Editorial: Role of Bifidobacteria in Human and Animal Health and Biotechnological Applications
2021
Esteban-Torres, María | Ruíz García, Lorena | Lugli, Gabriele Andrea | Ventura, Marco | Margolles Barros, Abelardo | Sinderen, Douwe van | Science Foundation Ireland | Irish Research Council | Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España) | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España) | European Commission | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
The gut microbiota is a dynamic community playing a key role in maintaining and supporting host health (Zheng et al., 2020). The interactions between the gut microbiota and the host are complex and perturbations by different causes may result in a variety of diseases including infections, inflammatory bowel disease, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative disorders and malignancy (Zheng et al., 2020). In humans, members of Bifidobacterium genus are among the most abundant colonizers of the gut of healthy infants (Milani et al., 2017) and persist throughout adulthood at lower relative abundance with a further reduction in the elderly (Arboleya et al., 2016).
Show more [+] Less [-]DS and MET are members of APC Microbiome Ireland, which is a research center funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), through the Irish Government's National Development Plan. The authors and their work were supported by SFI (Grant SFI/12/RC/2273), Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (GOIPD/2017/1302) and MSCA-IF (Grant number 898088). LR has received funding from the Spanish State Research Agency RTI2018-095021-J-I00 (funded by MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE).
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