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Review
. 2014 Apr 23:4:47.
doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00047. eCollection 2014.

Supra-organismal interactions in the human intestine

Laura Glendinning  1 , Andrew Free  2
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Review

Supra-organismal interactions in the human intestine

Laura Glendinning et al. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: GI tract; dysbiosis; microbiome; supraorganism; virome.

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Figure 1
Interactions between the human host, the intestinal microbiome, and the virome. Functional effects of a normal intestinal microbiome are illustrated, together with the bi-directional interactions between the microbiome and virome, and between the GI tract and brain via the microbiome. The panels at the right show the perturbations associated with various altered microbiome states: the germ-free state in laboratory mice, obesity in mice and humans, and human dysbiosis. Increased parameters are shown with yellow shading and upward-pointing arrows; reduced parameters are shown with red shading and downward-pointing arrows.
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