Sunday 13 April 2014

Gut Microbiota Linked to Alcoholic Liver Disease

A potential role in the development of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) may be played by gut microbiota as per reviews in the exciting new data. Though an early stage animal model, the French study highlights the possibility of preventing ALD with faecal microbiota transplantation - the engrafting of new microbiota, usually through administering human faecal material from a healthy donor into the colon of a recipient.2 In the study, two groups of germ-free mice received ...

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