Microbiome-Derived Metabolites in Animal Nutrition, Health and Disease
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Physiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 4554
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiome; fermentation metabolites; nutrition; host-microbiome interactions
Interests: gut microbiome; fecal metabolomics; gastrointestinal diseases; canine; feline
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The gut microbiome is an exciting and quickly evolving field of study. However, as more knowledge becomes available, it is becoming clear that we must go beyond answering “who is there?”, towards a more pressing question of “what are they doing?”. Indeed, the microbiome is a complex, functional organ that provides nutrients vital to the health of its host, for example, the production of butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid essential for animal intestinal health. Butyrate is the main source of energy for colonocytes, and can be produced by many bacterial species through different metabolic pathways.
Microbiome-derived metabolites can also influence biological functions beyond the gastrointestinal tract. They help preserve gut homeostasis by strengthening the gut-blood barrier, modulate inflammatory responses, and even affect neurologic functions through the gut–brain axis. Therefore, investigating the impact of diet and diseases in the production of those metabolites can have a significant impact on how we understand health promotion and pathogenesis, and may open the doors to new therapeutic targets in animal treatment.
Original manuscripts that investigate the in vivo production of microbiome-derived metabolites are invited for this Special Issue. Topics of special interest include how animals’ diets, nutrition, or diseases affect the production of microbiome-derived metabolites, and articles that incorporate dataset integration to identify potential microbial sources for those metabolites are especially welcome.
Dr. Emma Bermingham
Dr. Rachel Pilla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbiome
- metabolites
- SCFA
- in vivo
- animal models
- diet
- disease
- dataset integration
