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Gut Homeostasis; Microbial Cross Talks in Health and Disease Management

Gauri S Khatri¹, Christine Kurian¹, Asha Anand² and Paari KA¹*

¹Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India.

²Department of Plant Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India.

Corresponding Author Email: paari.ka@christuniversity.in

Abstract:

The human gut is a densely populated region comprising a diverse collection of microorganisms. The number, type and function of the diverse gut microbiota vary at different sites along the entire gastrointestinal tract. Gut microbes regulate signaling and metabolic pathways through microbial cross talks. Host and microbial interactions mutually contribute for intestinal homeostasis. Rapid shift or imbalance in the microbial community disrupts the equilibrium or homeostatic state leading to dysbiosis and causes many gastrointestinal diseases viz., Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Metabolic endotoxemia, Parkinson’s disease and Fatty liver disease etc. Intestinal homeostasis has been confounded by factors that disturb the balance between eubiosis and dysbiosis. This review correlates the consequences of dysbiosis with the incidence of various diseases. Impact of microbiome and its metabolites on various organs such as liver, brain, kidney, large intestine, pancreas etc are discussed. Furthermore, the role of therapeutic approaches such as ingestion of nutraceuticals (probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics), Fecal Microbial Treatment, Phage therapy and Bacterial consortium treatment in restoring the eubiotic state is elaborately reviewed.

Keywords:

Dysbiosis; Eubiosis; Gut Microbes; Homeostasis; Metabolic Diseases

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