Why Gut Microbes Matter : Understanding Our Microbiome /: Understanding Our Microbiome. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Harry J. Flint.
• Authors: Flint, Harry J
• Contents: Microorganisms and the Microbiome.- The Gut Microbiome: Essential Symbionts or Unwelcome Guests?.- How to Analyse Microbial Communities?.- How Microbes Gain Energy with and Without Oxygen.- Who Inhabits Our Gut? Introducing the Human Gut Microbiota.- Variability and Stability of the Human Gut Microbiome.- How Gut Microorganisms Make Use of Available Carbohydrates.- Do My Microbes Make Me Fat? Potential for the Gut Microbiota to Influence Energy Balance, Obesity and Metabolic Health in Humans.- Gut Microbiota and Metabolites.- Host Responses to Gut Microbes.- Treating the Gut Microbiome as a System.- Perspectives and Prospects.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (163 pages)
• Subjects: Medicine; Medical microbiology; Health promotion; Microbiology; Human physiology; Life sciences; Medical -- Preventive Medicine; Medical -- Physiology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- General; Public health & preventive medicine; Microbiology (non-medical); Physiology; Popular science; Medical -- Microbiology; Medical microbiology & virology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030432461
• Related ISBNs: 9783030432454
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.