I’ve Gut A Feeling: Microbiota Impacting the Conceptual and Experimental Perspectives of Personalized Medicine
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Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla, 03 50134, Firenze, Italy
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Department of Biomedicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi (AOUC), Largo Brambilla, 03 50134, Firenze, Italy
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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2018, 19(12), 3756; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19123756
Received: 21 September 2018
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Revised: 31 October 2018
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Accepted: 16 November 2018
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Published: 27 November 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Interplay of Microbiome and Immune Response in Health and Diseases)
In recent years, the human microbiota has gained increasing relevance both in research and clinical fields. Increasing studies seem to suggest the centrality of the microbiota and its composition both in the development and maintenance of what we call “health” and in generating and/or favoring (those cases in which the microbiota’s complex relational architecture is dysregulated) the onset of pathological conditions. The complex relationships between the microbiota and human beings, which invest core notions of biomedicine such as “health” and “individual,” do concern not only problems of an empirical nature but seem to require the need to adopt new concepts and new perspectives in order to be properly analysed and utilized, especially for their therapeutic implementation. In this contribution we report and discuss some of the theoretical proposals and innovations (from the ecological component to the notion of polygenomic organism) aimed at producing this change of perspective. In conclusion, we summarily analyze what impact and what new challenges these new approaches might have on personalized/person centred/precision medicine.
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Keywords:
microbiome; health; precision medicine; genomics
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Chicago/Turabian StyleAmedei, Amedeo, and Federico Boem. 2018. "I’ve Gut A Feeling: Microbiota Impacting the Conceptual and Experimental Perspectives of Personalized Medicine" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 19, no. 12: 3756. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19123756
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