Reduced Mass and Diversity of the Colonic Microbiome in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Improvement with Ketogenic Diet

Reduced Mass and Diversity of the Colonic Microbiome in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Improvement with Ketogenic Diet

Background: Colonic microbiome is thought to be involved in auto-immune multiple sclerosis (MS). Interactions between diet and the colonic microbiome in MS are unknown.Methods: We compared the composition of the colonic microbiota quantitatively in 25 MS patients and 14 healthy controls.Fluorescence...

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Main Authors: Alexander Swidsinski, Yvonne Dörffel, Vera Loening-Baucke, Christoph Gille, Önder Göktas, Anne Reißhauer, Jürgen Neuhaus, Karsten-Henrich Weylandt, Alexander Guschin, Markus Bock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
FISH
colonic microbiota
multiple sclerosis
biofermentation
ketogenic diet
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01141/full

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