Objective The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate intervention widely used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, thought to reduce seizures through a combination of metabolic, neuronal, ...

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Loss of early-life microbial diversity is correlated with diabetes, yet mechanisms by which microbes influence disease remain elusive. We report a critical neonatal window in mice when microbiota disr...

Neuroscience; Microbiome

Resident macrophages of the muscularis externa refine the enteric nervous system (ENS) early in life by pruning synapses and phagocytosing enteric neurons, and later switch to a neuro-supportive funct...

The AGF are integral part of the microbiome of herbivores. They play a crucial role in breaking down plant biomass in hindgut and foregut fermenters. The majority of research has been conducted on the...