...Katie J. Stott; Bethan Phillips; Lee Parry; Stephanie May Over the last few decades it has been established that the complex interaction between the host and the multitude of organisms that compose the intestinal microbiota plays an important role in human metabolic health and disease. Whilst...

...Tian-hao Liu; Chen-yang Zhang; Ahmad Ud Din; Ning Li; Qian Wang; Jing-ze Yu; Zhen-yuan Xu; Chen-xi Li; Xiao-mei Zhang; Jia-li Yuan; Li-guo Chen; Zhong-shan Yang The association between lung and intestine has already been reported, but the differences in community structures or functions between...

... in expelling the worm is poorly understood. Approximately 90% of the body’s serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)) is made in enterochromaffin (EC) cells in the gut, indicative of the importance of this amine in intestinal function. Signaling via a plethora of receptor subtypes, substantial evidence...