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. 2020 Apr 9;16(4):e1008370.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008370. eCollection 2020 Apr.

In sickness and health: Effects of gut microbial metabolites on human physiology

Robert W P Glowacki  1 , Eric C Martens  1
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In sickness and health: Effects of gut microbial metabolites on human physiology

Robert W P Glowacki et al. PLoS Pathog. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. Effects of the gut microbiome on host health.
Some of the many known effects of the gut microbiome on diseases of various organ systems are illustrated. References for associations highlighted in the figure that are not mentioned in detail in the main text: autism [21, 33], Parkinson’s [64, 65], depression [29], multiple sclerosis [66], drug metabolism [54, 55], nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [67, 68], asthma [69], allergy [70, 71], heart disease [51], Celiac disease [72], IBD [27], and colorectal cancer [–76]. dsDNA, double stranded DNA; GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid; E. coli, Escherichia coli; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease (a collection of several intestinal disorders that includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis); PSA, capsular polysaccharide A from Bacteroides fragilis; TMA/TMAO, trimethylamine/ trimethylamine N-oxide.
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