Examples of gut flora in the following topics:
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- In the large intestine, a host of microorganisms known as "gut flora" help digest remaining food matter and create vitamins.
- Gut flora consists of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of animals and is the largest reservoir of human flora.
- It is estimated that these gut flora have around a hundred times as many genes in aggregate as there are in the human genome.
- Without gut flora, the human body would be unable to utilize some of the undigested carbohydrates it consumes; some types of gut flora have enzymes that human cells lack for breaking down certain polysaccharides.
- Summarize the digestive processes of the gut flora of the large intestine
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- Microbiota serve many functions in our body; most notable is the gut flora, crucial for the proper digestion of food, carbohydrate fermentation, and nutrient absorption.
- An example is gut flora getting into the body's blood stream.
- Antimicrobial agents which can kill beneficial gut flora can reduce the numbers of individual microbes or reduce the species of beneficial bacteria.
- In the case of the gut flora, this may impair the ability of a patient to properly metabolize food.
- In addition to serving a necessary function as gut flora due in metabolism of food, some microbiota in our bodies serve the function of keeping pathogenic microbes from inhabiting or dominating other flora at locations in our body.
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- Gut flora consist of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of animals and are the largest reservoir of human flora.
- Gut flora consists of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of animals and is the largest reservoir of human flora .
- It is estimated that these gut flora have around 100 times as many genes in aggregate as there are in the human genome.
- Fungi and protozoa also make up a part of the gut flora, but little is known about their activities.
- The currently known genera of fungi of the gut flora include Candida, Saccharomyces, Aspergillus, and Penicillium.
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- Human-microbial interactions can be commensal or mutualistic, as with many types of gut flora, or harmful, as with pathogenic bacteria.
- Gut flora consists of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of animals and is the largest reservoir of human flora.
- Fungi and protozoa also make up a part of the gut flora, but little is known about their activities.
- The relationship between gut flora and humans is thought to be not merely commensal, but rather a mutualistic relationship.
- Though people can survive without gut flora, the microorganisms perform a host of useful functions, such as fermenting unused energy substrates, training the immune system, preventing growth of harmful, pathogenic bacteria, regulating the development of the gut, producing vitamins for the host, and producing hormones to direct the host to store fats.
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- Many of the bacteria in the digestive tract are collectively referred to as the gut flora .
- In this context, gut is synonymous with intestinal, and flora with microbiota and microflora, the word microbiome is also in use.
- The gut flora is the human flora of microorganisms that normally live in the digestive tract and can perform a number of useful functions for their hosts.
- Gut flora consists of microorganisms such as Escherichia Coli that live in the digestive tracts of animals.
- In this context, gut is synonymous with intestinal, and flora with microbiota and microflora.
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- The normal flora is also essential in the development of certain tissues, including the cecum and lymphatics.
- Bacterial flora is also involved in the production of cross-reactive antibodies.
- These are antibodies produced by the immune system against the normal flora, that are also effective against related pathogens, thereby preventing infection or invasion.
- Escherichia coli is one of the many species of bacteria present in the human gut.
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- The presence of bacteroides in the normal flora of mammals is indicative of its role in processing complex molecules to simpler ones that can be utilized by the host.
- The role of bacteroides in the normal flora extends beyond their ability to breakdown larger complex molecules and can display protective function.
- The bacteroides are able to benefit the host by preventing infection by potential pathogens that may colonize and infect the gut as well.
- Describe the role of Bacteroides in the normal flora of the human gastrointestinal tract and the role of Flavobacterium in causing disease in freshwater fish
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- Those that are expected to be present and that under normal circumstances do not cause disease, but instead participate in maintaining health, are deemed members of the normal flora.
- It is estimated that 500 to 1000 species of bacteria live in the human gut and a roughly similar number on the skin.
- Normal flora bacteria can act as opportunistic pathogens at times of lowered immunity.The vaginal microflora consist mostly of various lactobacillus species .
- Disturbance of the vaginal flora can lead to bacterial vaginosis.
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- The skin flora, more properly referred to as the skin microbiome or skin microbiota, are the microorganisms that reside on the skin.
- Skin flora are usually non-pathogenic, and either commensals (are not harmful to their host) or mutualistic (offer a benefit).
- There are three main ecological areas for skin flora: sebaceous, moist, and dry.
- Research on the immune system in the gut and lungs has shown that microflora aids immunity development.
- Describe the types of skin flora and how they can be beneficial for the organism
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- Recall that the colon is also home to the microflora called "intestinal flora" that aid in the digestion process .
- Escherichia coli is one of the many species of bacteria present in the human gut.