Microbiota and Cancer 3.0
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 23664
Special Issue Editors
Interests: acute myeloid leukemia in children; pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children; next-generation sequencing; characterization and modulation of gut microbiota during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
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Interests: human microbiome; gut microbiome; microbial ecology; host–microbiome interactions; probiotics; next-generation sequencing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issues, titled "Microbiota and Cancer" and "Microbiota and Cancer 2.0".
The human body is colonized by thousands of different microbial species that have a key role in our survival. In the last 15 years, our knowledge of human microbiomes has increased exponentially. Thanks to next-generation DNA sequencing, metabolomics, and genobiotic models, we could dissect compositional and functional microbiome structures, and infer the mechanisms underlying the role of the microbiome in human biology and pathology. Mounting evidence has suggested a critical role of the microbiome in the maturation and continued education of the host immune response in susceptibility to cancer and in response to cancer treatment. The impact of the gut microbiota on anticancer immune responses has represented an intriguing and evolving scenario in the recent literature. Novel metacommunity approaches have provided an integrative and extensive vision of the tight link between microbiomes and cancer, and have offered new exciting insights into possible therapeutic implications.
This Special Issue titled “Microbiota and Cancer 3.0” will focus on the role of the human microbiome in the pathogenesis of cancer, in response to immunotherapy, in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and in possible microbiota-based therapeutic or pre-emptive strategies to manage treatment-related complications.
Authors are invited to submit original research and review papers which address the abovementioned topics to this Special Issue.
Dr. Riccardo Masetti
Dr. Silvia Turroni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gut microbiota
- cancer
- hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- human microbiome
- immune system
- colon cancer
- carcinogenesis
- nutrition
- short-chain fatty acids
- metagenomic
- dysbiosis
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