Article
Investigating regional-specific gut microbial distribution: an uncharted territory in disease therapeutics
2024-10-22
Abstract excerpt
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is crucial for nutrient digestion and absorption. Longitudinally segmented into the mouth, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, and colon, each region plays a critical role in these processes and hosts trillions of symbiotic microbiota with diverse functions (Donaldson et al., 2016). Moreover, as the body’s largest endocrine organ, the GI tract orchestrates host meta...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bc986764-6b8c-57ef-86a8-857b2d3b5ac1
- DOI
- 10.1093/procel/pwae058
