Dietary Patterns and Gut Microbiota
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Prebiotics and Probiotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 3103
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gut microbiota; animal nutrition; fermentation; prebiotics; probiotics; fiber; inflammatory bowel disease; mucosal immunity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gut microbiota is critically involved in maintaining the integrity of the gastrointestinal tract, the gut mucosal homeostasis, and host nutritional metabolism. The specific signatures of intestinal microbiome and alterations are likely to play an important (but still underestimated) role in determining susceptibility and resilience to disease outcomes locally and systemically. The human and animal gut microbiomes are shaped by diet and host factors, in which different dietary patterns acutely and persistently perturb microbial communities. It is important to understand the complex interactions between microbiota and host immunity, including which and how gut microbiota metabolizes these dietary elements, and the molecular links and underlying mechanisms of how diet-reshaped gut microbes and their metabolites modulate host immunity systems, physiological metabolism, and health. In this Special Issue, we will pay attention to how those elements from different dietary patterns that modulate gut microbiota, and how specific gut microbes and their metabolites work to be involved in the development of chronic diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.
Dr. Dandan Han
Dr. Xiaolong Gu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prebiotics
- probiotics
- dietary fiber
- gut microbiota
- inflammation
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