Sniffing Out Hypertension; The Microbiome and Health  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8823 (Feb. 2013), page 72.
Topik: Bacteria; Parasitology; Malnutrition; Medical Research; Hypertension

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The role of the microbiome, the complement of bacterial passengers carried around by every human being, gets more intriguing by the month. Recent papers have confirmed that having the wrong microbiome can cause malnutrition, and that transplanting bugs from one person to another, in the form of small amounts of faeces, can abolish Clostridium difficile infection, a potentially fatal gut disease, even when antibiotics have failed to do so. The latest connection to be investigated between the microbiome and health is that of gut bacteria to blood pressure. Work by Jennifer Pluznick of Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, and her colleagues, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms that this link exists--at least, in mice and thus probably also in men. And an intriguing aside is that, in essence, the reason is that the kidneys have a sense of smell.

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