Prebiotics and Probiotics
A section of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Section Information
Despite some recently voiced skepticism on the value of prebiotics and probiotics in human medicine, this field remains very dynamic and keeps expanding as the role of gut microbiota is quickly reaching center stage in a variety of health-related issues.
This Section of Nutrients aims to provide the reader with innovative findings from bench research as well as from controlled clinical trials as well as up-to-date, fair, balanced reviews, rigorously free from commercial bias and providing the newest information most relevant to healthcare providers. We aim at an audience that includes physician scientists, practicing clinicians, dietitians, and nurses, so they can be presented with up-to-date, fair and strictly evidence-based answer to some of the many questions currently open for the potential use of prebiotics, probiotics, and the new kid in town: postbiotics.
The interaction of pre- and probiotics, both old and new, genetically engineered with gut microbiota, promises to unfold an exciting range of clinical implications, and this section aims to be at the forefront of this frontier.
The challenge of the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has even offered an unexpected opportunity for probiotics to show their anti-inflammatory potential, a welcome addition to the limited therapeutic weaponry.
We are thus inviting all potential authors working on gut microbiota—from basic science, as well as translational and clinical investigators and recognized authorities in this area—to continue to populate this growing Section by providing their data as well as rigorous analyses and syntheses of the currently available evidence to help to maintain a robust database of current, reliable, and valuable information.
Topics:
- Gut microbiota: more than the old, dull “microflora”
- Prebiotic and probiotics: the traditional, the newcomers, the future ones
- Pre-, pro-, and postbiotics as “influencers” of the gut microbiota
- Did prebiotics fail to achieve their potential?
- Probiotics not simply for gut health, but beyond:
- Gut–brain axis implications in neurology and psychiatry
- Chronic inflammation
- Autoimmune disorders
- Arthritis
- Obesity
- Skin disorders
- Food allergies
- Are we ready for the new concept of postbiotics?
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Gut Microbiota in Kidney Disease: Potential Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- Prebiotics, Probiotics and Nutrition Effects on the Human Metabolome (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- Physical Exercise and Nutrition on the Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- Effects of Prebiotics, Probiotics on Dysbiosis of Gut Microbiota and Gut Health (Deadline: 5 October 2024)
- Prebiotics and Probiotics in Metabolism Disorder (Deadline: 5 October 2024)
- Interaction between Gut Microbiota and Obesity (Deadline: 15 October 2024)
- Probiotics and Their Metabolites in Human Health (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- Dietary Habit, Gut Microbiome and Human Health (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- The Influence of Prebiotics and Probiotics on the Microbiome—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- Probiotics, Prebiotics and Gut Health (Deadline: 5 November 2024)
- Dietary Interventions for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
- The Potential of Gut Microbiota in Cancer (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
- Effects of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Postbiotics on Human Health (Deadline: 25 December 2024)
- The Relationship between Nutrition, Microbiota and the Gut–Brain Axis (Deadline: 5 January 2025)
- Effect of Dietary Components on Gut Homeostasis and Microbiota (Deadline: 5 January 2025)
- Nutritional Modulators of Gut Neuroendocrine Factors (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
- Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Gut Microbiota with Chronic Disease—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 January 2025)
- Diet–Microbiome Interaction in Gastrointestinal Disorders (Deadline: 25 January 2025)
- Nutrition, Gut Microbiota and Immunity (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Interactions between Probiotics, the Gut Microbiome, and Immunity (Deadline: 15 February 2025)
- The Role of Microbiota in Nutrition and Diet: An Ever-Evolving Relationship (Deadline: 15 February 2025)
- Dietary Effects on Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Health (Deadline: 15 February 2025)
- Diet and Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis: A Novel Nutritional Therapy (Deadline: 5 March 2025)
- Personalized Nutrition and Human Gut Microbiota (Deadline: 15 March 2025)
- Dietary Patterns and Gut Microbiota (Deadline: 25 April 2025)
- Diet-Host-Gut Microbiota Interactions and Human Health (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
