Human Microbiota and Microbiome - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1773611739 ISBN 13 : 9781773611730

Editeur : Delve Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

After the Human Genome Project was concluded, it was discovered that our genome is must smaller than expected (overall human genome is 3.08 Gb), which led scientist to think that this has to do with the symbiotic relationships between Humans and the microorganisms inhabiting in the different human organs and tissues (which would lead to a 10 fold increase in the "Human genome" size). These observation started the beginning of the Human Microbiota studies, the study of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi that inhabit in the human body. Development of new generation sequencing techniques, lead to the study of the Human Microbiome, study of the genome of the microorganisms that live in the human body.The term Microbiota was first defined by Lederberg and McCray, as an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms found in and on all multicellular organisms studied to date from plants to animals. A microbiota includes bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi and viruses. Microbiota have been found to be crucial for immunologic, hormonal and metabolic homeostasis of their host. The term Microbiome refers to the entire habitat, including the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, lower and higher eukaryotes and viruses), their genomes (i.e., genes), and the surrounding environmental conditions.This book starts with an introduction and description of the Human Microbiome Project, an ongoing effort to understand the Human Microbiome. The next sections look into the microbiota and microbiome of specific body fluids (saliva, Section 1), and tissues (oral and nasopharyngeal sites, lungs, skin, gastrointestinal tract, vagina and others, Sections 2 to 8). Sections 9 and 10 are dedicated to in vitro and in vivo models for the study of the Human Microbiota and Microbiome. Section 11 is dedicated to the study of the metabolome.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patricia obtained her PhD form University College Dublin in 2010. Her interests are on Microbiology and Parasitology. She is currently working as a Postdoc at University of Maryland Baltimore, USA on Chlamydia infections

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Delve Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1773611739
• ISBN 13: 9781773611730
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 275
• Éditeur: Marques Patricia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible