Effects of Gut Microbiota on Human Health and Disease, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Gut Microbiota".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 689
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal internal medicine and toxic diseases; animal nutritional metabolic diseases and immunity; intestinal microbes; probiotic fermentation; obesity; liver fibrosis; cholestatic liver injury
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, “Effects of Gut Microbiota on Human Health and Disease” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/microorganisms/special_issues/K1J57T17SY).
Intestinal microbiota may contribute to human health and disease. However, to gain a mechanistic understanding of how the gut microbiota affect human health and disease, the current research is moving away from descriptive microbiota census analyses toward cause-and-effect studies. Joint analyses of high-throughput human multi-omics data, including metagenomics and metabolomics data, together with measures of host physiology and mechanistic experiments in humans, hold potential as initial steps in the identification of potential molecular mechanisms behind previously reported associations. Through this topic, we will discuss the current knowledge of how the gut microbiota and derived microbial compounds may be linked to the metabolism of a healthy human host or to the pathogenesis of common human diseases. We will highlight examples of microbiota-targeted interventions aiming to optimize metabolic health and provide perspectives for future basic and translational investigations within this nascent and promising research field.
The aim of this Special Issue of Microorganisms is to present a collection of articles that provide a snapshot of current research into the effects of the gut microbiota on human health and disease. Manuscripts covering all aspects of research relating to this area are welcome.
Dr. Yunhuan Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gut microbiota
- human health
- human disease
- virus
- microorganism
- nutrition
- metabolic disease
- liver
- gut
- kidney
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