Editors: Sandipan Dasgupta, Moitreyee Chattopadhyay

Gut Microbiota and their Impact on Disease Pathways and Interventions

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ISBN: 978-981-5324-55-6 (Print)
ISBN: 978-981-5324-54-9 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2025
DOI: 10.2174/97898153245491250101

Introduction

Gut Microbiota and their Impact on Disease Pathways and Interventions discusses the intricate world of gut microbiota and its profound influence on human health and disease. This comprehensive volume explores the microbiome's pivotal role in conditions ranging from obesity and cardiovascular disease to inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, ocular diseases, and neurological disorders. It offers cutting-edge insights into therapeutic strategies such as probiotics, prebiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation, alongside emerging approaches like gut microbial metabolites as diagnostic biomarkers. It serves as a vital resource for understanding and harnessing the role of gut health in disease prevention and management.

Key Features:

  • - Multidisciplinary approach integrating microbiology, medicine, and biotechnology.
  • - Innovative treatment modalities including personalized medicine based on microbiome analysis.
  • - Exploration of gut-brain, gut-heart, and gut-immune system interactions.

Readership

This book is essential for researchers, healthcare professionals, students in medicine and biological sciences, and industry professionals in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

Preface

The phrase "gut microbiota" has become widely used among scientists and researchers over time. The diverse population of microorganisms directly involved in the body's normal homeostasis and illness states resides in the human gastrointestinal tract. A man's diet and the frequency of infectious diseases determine how much of the microbiota population remains in adulthood after it has grown in the body during infancy.

Before its role in drug absorption was discovered, it was thought that the microbiome was mostly involved in food digestion. Over time, it became clear that the microbiome system is crucial to the body's ability to fight against illness. The particular products of the microbiome are essential to the process of digestion. However, as science advanced and human curiosity grew, it became interesting to see how the microbiota was linked to a number of disorders. After extensive investigation, it was shown that the majority of the diseased state develops as a result of variety in the gut's microbial community.

The idea for writing this book came about as a result of the knowledge regarding the significance of microbiota in human health. The "gut microbiota" plays a role in controlling various systems and is not limited to the alimentary canal. The book's chapters go into greater detail about the role that gut microbes play in the development of conditions like Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular problems, neurological disorders, and other conditions. The tactics that would provide an appropriate microbe are also covered here, as the proliferation of the microbiome has become vital in the body.

By reading the book, academics and researchers will gain a grasp of the fundamental physiology and homeostatic changes associated with specific diseases caused by the "gut microbiota," as well as the potential implications of the microbiome and its metabolites for human health.

We sincerely hope that the book will pique readers' curiosity, assist the medical community recognise the significance of the human microbiome in illness prevention and maintaining homeostasis, and provide a natural means of preserving good health for all.

Sandipan Dasgupta
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology W.B. Haringhata
Nadia-741249, West Bengal, India

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Moitreyee Chattopadhyay
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology W.B. Haringhata
Nadia-741249, West Bengal, India