Placental Anatomy
Placental Anatomy: To study placental microbiome in depth, we must know about the anatomy and structure of placenta. Placenta has two parts one is Chorion frondosum, which is short and fetus produced this part and…
Placental microflora seeded from
It is unsure that from where and when fetal and placental microbiota comes from. May be microbes are passed from intestinal lumen of mother or from the vaginal track or from the oral cavity or…
Is there a placental microbiome? How does the placental microbiome alter during pregnancy ?
Abstract: Placenta is the primary organ between fetus and mother it has many effects on the health of fetus and mother. Placenta transfers the gases, nutrients and performed many immunity based function between maternal and…
Placental Microbiome
Microbiota of an individual is acquired at birth, or in womb of mother? Whether the first encounter of microbes and fetus occur before, during or after delivery? Can the micro-organism reach the fetus by crossing…
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Esophageal Cancer
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: The esophageal microbiome mostly initiates from the oropharynx by engulfing or from the upper stomach by gastroesophageal reflux disease (GORD) (Walker and Talley, 2014). The esophageal microbiome are divided in two distinct…
Gastric Microbiota in Gastric Diseases
The interruption of human gastric microbiota has been identified as a trigger of different diseases of the stomach. Atrophic gastritis: It is observed in patients with atrophic gastritis that, less gastric acid barrier allows the…
Factors affecting the composition of gastric microbiota
At general level, the gastric microbiota composition is quite dynamic, so affected by variety of factors, like medication use, dietry habits as well as swelling of gastric mucosa and colonization of H. pylori also. Studies…
Gastric Microbiota Composition
Stomach is known as sterile organ as it produce acid that is not friendly for bacteria. However, the bile acid’s reflux, gastric peristalsis and mucus layer thickness thought to obstruct the colonies of bacteria in…
Impact of Host’s Gut Microbiota on Fertility
Gut microbiome i.e. conglomerates of microbes living in gastrointestinal system, majorly comprises of 4 phyla i.e. Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria. A healthy gut is characterized by abundance >90% of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes species, however…
Influence of Male Reproductive Tract Microbiota
Studies related to male reproductive tract microbiota are relatively less as compared to other body sites microbiome studies. Particularly semen and prostrate gland have been shown to have a direct affect on different male reproductive…