BookMaria Gazouli, George Theodoropoulos, editors.
Summary: This book reviews recent knowledge of the role of gut microbiome in health and disease. It covers extensive topics for several diseases, including metabolic-related diseases, allergies, gastrointestinal diseases, psychiatric diseases, and cancer, while also discussing therapeutic approaches by microbiota modification. Comprehensive and cutting-edge, Gut Microbiome-Related Diseases and Therapies deepens a reader's theoretical expertise in gut microbiome. Graduate and postdoctoral students, medical doctors, and biomedical researchers will benefit from this book.
Contents:
1. The Human Microbiome
2. In silico metagenomics analysis
3. Gut microbiome and Gastrointestinal Disorders
4. Gut Microbiome and Cancer
5. Gut microbiome, diabetes and obesity: Complex Interplay of Physiology- 6. Gut Microbiota in Obesity and Bariatric Surgery: Where do we stand?
7. Gut microbiome and mental stress-related disorders: The interplay of microbial endocrinology
8. Chapter 8. The Gut Microbiome in Serious Mental Illnesses
9. The controversial interplay of gut microbiome and reproductive function in humans
10. Gut microbiome on allergies.