Interaction Between Gut Microbiota and Obesity
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Obesity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2025 | Viewed by 2296
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Interests: food additives and contaminants; metagenomics; gut microbiota; capillary electrophoresis; tandem mass spectrometry
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, human gut microbiota has been shown to be a key agent in the prevention and development of numerous metabolic pathologies, including obesity. Although obesity is a complex and multifactorial pathology, the different environmental factors capable of influencing host metabolism and energy balance are considered key players, and gut microbiota can effect them. Gut microbiota exerts a miscellany of protective, structural, and metabolic effects on both intestinal and peripheral tissues, thus affecting body weight by modulating metabolism, appetite, as well as hormonal and immune systems.
However, the precise impact of gut microbiota on gut metabolites and its subsequent influence on susceptibility to obesity remains uncertain. In fact, most of the research carried out has focused mainly on investigating the effects on human health of the different proportions and functionality of bacterial groups. In contrast, the effects of fungi, viruses, archaea, and other members of intestinal populations have been studied much less frequently.
In this Special Issue of Nutrients, we extend an invite to the scientific community to submit their latest advances in the knowledge of the complex interactions between gut microbiota and obesity. Manuscripts describing the effects of bioactive compounds, food ingredients, contaminants, or any environmental element on the different microbial populations in the human gut are welcome. Also, the effects of eubiosis altering agents, as well as dysbiosis correcting agents, such as prebiotics, probiotics, symbiotics, or postbiotics, are of great interest for this Special Issue.
Research articles and reviews focused on the following topics are of particular interest to this Special Issue:
-Gut microbiota proportions and functionality.
-Mechanism through which the gut microbiota influences human weight and health.
-Food components (macro- and micronutrients) that can alter, both beneficially and detrimentally, human intestinal microbiota.
-Restoration of eubiosis by means of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, phages, or other external agents.
-Relationship mechanisms between the different communities of microorganisms in the human intestine.
-Use of human intestinal microbiota in the maintenance of human health and prevention of obesity.
-Effects of gut microbiota metabolites on the development of obesity.
Prof. Dr. Jose M. Miranda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gut microbiota
- prebiotic
- probiotic
- symbiotic
- postbiotic
- metabolic diseases
- gut virome
- gut mycobiome
- bioactive compounds
- gut metabolites
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