Streptococcus intermedius: From a Normal Oral Commensal to a Life-Threatening Organism DOI Open Access

Anas Mahmoud,

Tala Beliani,

Nizar Alyassin

и другие.

Cureus, Год журнала: 2023, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 18, 2023

Subdural empyema is a collection of pus in the subdural space between dura mater and arachnoid. It carries very high morbidity mortality as it can spread anywhere brain; however, risk be mitigated with appropriate surgical medical intervention. Being protected by skull, cranial infections are usually preceded significant factor, either an external invader such skull fractures secondary to trauma, penetrating injury, prior surgery, or, more commonly, than 50% cases, due internal infection ear or sinus infections. Anaerobic aerobic bacteria cause empyema. Both gram-positive gram-negative notorious for developing this kind infection; example, different groups streptococci staphylococci, Haemophilus influenza, other bacilli While frequent causing empyema, staphylococci associated skin invasion head trauma surgery. Streptococcus intermedius alpha-hemolytic pathogen belonging larger anginosus group that itself subgroup from viridans streptococci, aka milleri. oral commensal flora considered low-virulence immunocompetent patients but mortality. tends occur often immunocompromised diabetic patients, those human immunodeficiency virus infection, using immunosuppressive medications. The clinical course ranges indolent fulminant. size location abscess play role presentation. Headache most common presenting symptom, also present fever, nausea, seizure, altered mental status. Diagnosis obtained CT MRI scans brain. Prompt drainage lengthy antibiotics improve prognosis significantly. Our case highlights rare origin direct abscess.

Язык: Английский

Probiotics and Food Bioactives: Unraveling Their Impact on Gut Microbiome, Inflammation, and Metabolic Health DOI
Alice Njolke Mafe, Great Iruoghene Edo, Patrick Othuke Akpoghelie

и другие.

Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 14, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Microbiota Implications in Endocrine-Related Diseases: From Development to Novel Therapeutic Approaches DOI Creative Commons
Vicente Javier Clemente‐Suárez, Laura Redondo-Flórez, Alejandro Rubio-Zarapuz

и другие.

Biomedicines, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(1), С. 221 - 221

Опубликована: Янв. 18, 2024

This comprehensive review article delves into the critical role of human microbiota in development and management endocrine-related diseases. We explore complex interactions between endocrine system, emphasizing implications dysbiosis for onset progression various disorders. The aims to synthesize current knowledge, highlighting recent advancements potential novel therapeutic approaches targeting microbiota-endocrine interactions. Key topics include impact on hormone regulation, its pathologies, promising avenues modulation through diet, probiotics, prebiotics, fecal transplantation. underscore importance this research advancing personalized medicine, offering insights more tailored effective treatments

Язык: Английский

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Gut microbiome: A revolution in type II diabetes mellitus DOI Open Access
Madhan Jeyaraman,

Tejaswin Mariappan,

Naveen Jeyaraman

и другие.

World Journal of Diabetes, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15(9), С. 1874 - 1888

Опубликована: Авг. 27, 2024

Type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has experienced a dramatic increase globally across countries of various income levels over the past three decades. The persistent prevalence T2DM is attributed to complex interplay genetic and environmental factors. While numerous pharmaceutical therapies have been developed, there remains an urgent need for innovative treatment approaches that offer effectiveness without significant adverse effects. In this context, exploration gut microbiome presents promising avenue. Research increasingly shown individuals with exhibits distinct differences compared healthy individuals, suggesting its potential role in disease's pathogenesis progression. This emerging field offers diverse applications, particularly modifying environment through administration prebiotics, probiotics, fecal transfer. These inter-ventions aim restore balance, which could potentially alleviate or even reverse metabolic dysfunctions associated T2DM. Although current results from clinical trials not yet effects on management, groundwork laid deeper investigation. Ongoing future are critical advancing our understanding microbiome's impact diabetes. By further elucidating mechanisms alterations influence insulin resistance glucose metabolism, researchers can develop more targeted interventions. harness developing new therapeutic strategies compelling prospect transform landscape T2DM, reducing burden significantly less reliant traditional pharmaceuticals focused holistic, systemic health improvements.

Язык: Английский

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Influence of gut bacteria on type 2 diabetes: Mechanisms and therapeutic strategy DOI
Xue Wen, Luming Qi, Kui Zhao

и другие.

World Journal of Diabetes, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(1)

Опубликована: Ноя. 29, 2024

The onset and progression of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are strongly associated with imbalances in gut bacteria, making the microbiome a new potential therapeutic focus. This commentary examines recent publication World Journal Diabetes . article explores association between T2DM microbiota, focus on pathophysiological changes related to dysbiosis. It proposes innovative microbiome-targeted strategies evaluates challenges future directions such approaches. editorial summarizes key points their discussion role elaborates influence specific microbial species disease through host–microbiota metabolic axis. provides insights for research gut-microbiota-based interventions T2DM.

Язык: Английский

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The Gut Microbiota-Related Antihyperglycemic Effect of Metformin DOI Creative Commons
Izabela Szymczak-Pajor, Józef Drzewoski, Małgorzata Kozłowska

и другие.

Pharmaceuticals, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 18(1), С. 55 - 55

Опубликована: Янв. 6, 2025

It is critical to sustain the diversity of microbiota maintain host homeostasis and health. Growing evidence indicates that changes in gut microbial biodiversity may be associated with development several pathologies, including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Metformin still first-line drug for treatment T2DM unless there are contra-indications. The primarily inhibits hepatic gluconeogenesis increases sensitivity target cells (hepatocytes, adipocytes myocytes) insulin; however, increasing suggests it also influence gut. As patients exhibit dysbiosis, intestinal microbiome has gained interest as a key metabolic diseases. Interestingly, were observed treated metformin compared those who not. Therefore, aim this review present current state knowledge regarding association antihyperglycemic effect metformin. Numerous studies indicate reduction glucose concentration due part microbiota. These contribute improved barrier integrity, increased production short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), regulation bile acid metabolism, enhanced absorption. addition well-recognized gluconeogenesis, appears exert its glucose-lowering by influencing biodiversity. However, we only beginning understand how acts on specific microorganisms intestine, further research needed role regulating impact remarkable

Язык: Английский

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Garlic-Derived Exosome-Like Nanoparticles Enhance Gut Homeostasis in Stressed Piglets: Involvement of Lactobacillus reuteri Modulation and Indole-3-propionic Acid Induction DOI
Xiyuan Liu,

Xinyu Zhang,

Haozhen Liu

и другие.

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 13, 2025

The occurrence of pediatric diarrhea is frequently associated with inflammatory responses, compromised barrier function, and dysbiosis in the gut. These conditions are commonly triggered by stressors, similar to postweaning observed piglets. Garlic-derived exosome-like nanoparticles (GELNs) hold potential for ameliorating stress-induced diarrhea, yet supporting evidence remains scarce. Following successful isolation GELNs, this study employed weaned piglets as a model evaluate regulatory effects GELNs on intestinal integrity, mucosal inflammation, gut microbiota its metabolites. Weaned Bama miniature were orally administered phosphate buffer saline (PBS) or 1 week later, samples collected following slaughter. Histological molecular biological techniques performed examine structure, tight junction protein expression, mucin secretion, T lymphocyte infiltration, levels pro-inflammatory cytokines. composition was analyzed using 16S rRNA sequencing, while derived metabolites profiled via untargeted metabolomics. Subsequently, correlation analyses associations between metabolites, well key indicators function cytokine response GELNs. isolated exhibit typical exosome characteristics size morphology, alongside rich content proteins RNAs. incidence reduced supplementation at dosage 50 mg/kg body weight, compared control group. In addition, receiving displayed an increase within tissues jejunum, ileum, colon, decrease CD8+ counts suppression cytokines (IL-8 TNF-α) layers both jejunum ileum. Furthermore, sequencing unveiled that reshaped colonic augmenting beneficial bacteria, notably Lactobacillus reuteri, correlating strongly diminished TNF-α heightened expression. Metabolite analysis demonstrated significant indole-3-propionic acid, from microbiota, supplemented This positively correlated abundance reuteri negatively linked IL-8 summary, our demonstrates mitigate stress-related inflammation enhance production piglets, which potentially achieved through optimization composition, specifically increasing induction anti-inflammatory microbial metabolite acid. findings presented here provide essential groundwork future development therapeutic strategy aimed enhancing homeostasis disruption caused stress children.

Язык: Английский

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Increased Risk of Cancer—An Integral Component of the Cardio–Renal–Metabolic Disease Cluster and Its Management DOI Creative Commons
Eberhard Standl, Oliver Schnell

Cells, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14(8), С. 564 - 564

Опубликована: Апрель 9, 2025

Cancer risk increases by 25 to 250% not only in dysmetabolic obese or overweight people with overt type 2 diabetes but also individuals intermediate hyperglycemia (pre-diabetes), especially pronounced of pancreatic hepatocellular cancer and obesity-related cancers, e.g., colorectal kidney bladder men, endometrial breast cancers women. may often be present before upon the diagnosis diabetes, as there is a common pathogenetic dysmetabolic-inflammatory background insulin resistance for developing cardiorenal disease, parallel. The mechanisms involved relate hyperinsulinemia potential carcinogenic priming event ectopic visceral, hepatic, pancreatic, renal fat accumulation that subsequently fuel inflammation lipo-oncogenic signals, causing mitochondrial oxidative stress deregulation. Moreover, foster mitogenic MAP kinase-related signaling, which can occur via IGF1 receptors due increased free levels obesity. Weight reduction 10% more pre-diabetes, through intensive lifestyle intervention bariatric (=metabolic) surgery treatment GLP-1 receptor agonists metformin, associated significantly lower incidence "diabesity"-associated cancers. In conclusion, seems huge utility adopting new "Cardio-Renal-Metabolic-Cancer Syndrome" approach, looking at time addition proactively screening undiagnosed dysglycemia.

Язык: Английский

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Immunostimulating Commensal Bacteria and Their Potential Use as Therapeutics DOI Open Access
Bonita McCuaig,

Yoshiyuki Goto

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 24(21), С. 15644 - 15644

Опубликована: Окт. 27, 2023

The gut microbiome is intimately intertwined with the host immune system, having effects on systemic system. Dysbiosis of has been linked not only to gastrointestinal disorders but also conditions skin, lungs, and brain. Commensal bacteria can affect status through a stimulation innate training adaptive competitive exclusion pathogens. improve response production immunomodulating compounds such as microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs), short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), secondary bile acids. microbiome, especially when in dysbiosis, plastic be manipulated introduction beneficial or adjustment nutrients stimulate expansion taxa. complex nature tract (GIT) ecosystem complicates use these methods, similar treatments have various results individuals different residential microbiomes differential health statuses. A more complete understanding interaction between commensal species, genetics, system needed for effective interventions developed implemented clinical setting.

Язык: Английский

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Global trends and collaborative networks in gut microbiota-insulin resistance research: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis (2000–2024) DOI Creative Commons

Gulshara Abildinova,

Valeriy Benberin, Tamara Vochshenkova

и другие.

Frontiers in Medicine, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11

Опубликована: Авг. 15, 2024

The human gut microbiota plays a crucial role in maintaining metabolic health, with substantial evidence linking its composition to insulin resistance. This study aims analyze the global scholarly contributions on relationship between intestinal and resistance from 2000 2024.

Язык: Английский

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Gut Microbiota Composition and Type 2 Diabetes: Are these Subjects Linked Together? DOI Creative Commons
Shabnam Razavi, Nour Amirmozafari, Abed Zahedi Bialvaei

и другие.

Heliyon, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 10(20), С. e39464 - e39464

Опубликована: Окт. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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