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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Chat for this week: What makes your gut microbiome differ from your dog’s?
This week, Fiona Whelan, an MSc candidate hailing from the Bowdish laboratory, will be examining the differences in the gut microbiomes of a variety of mammalian species by taking a look at this paper. The journal club will be held … Continue reading
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Pre-term Birth: Unraveling the Mystery of the Vaginal Flora
McMaster Grand Rounds this morning: great talk about the possible use of probiotics as preventative treatment of pre-term birth due to bacterial vaginosis. The most interesting for me was the differences in cytokines produced from placental tissue of male vs. … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterial vaginosis, Lactobacillus, pre-term birth, vaginal microbiota
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Got Milk?
Breast milk has long been known as a rich source of nutrients and antibodies essential for newborn’s health and protection against infection. Formula-fed babies are at higher risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, lower respiratory infection, asthma, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. … Continue reading
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Tagged breastmilk, colonization, Lactobacillus, newborn gut microbiota, pre-natal
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This week’s journal club paper
This Thursday Julie Kaiser from the Surette lab will present the following paper on how a mammalian retrovirus relies on the intestinal microbiota and manages to evade host immune responses and establish infection. The journal club will be held at … Continue reading
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A few papers of interest…
If anyone is interested in some microbiome reading, I’ve posted some references below of a few recent papers. One is the current status of the Human Microbiome Project. There is another one the connection between the microbiome and cancer. I’ve … Continue reading
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