Humans have an important association with their intestinal microbial flora. The microbial flora helps to shape the mammalian innate immune system, absorbs nutrients, and plays an intricate role on intestinal development. Microbes and mammals communicate with each other through an array of hormone and hormonelike chemical compounds. These "signals," however, are hijacked by bacterial pathogens, ...

GORDON, HELMUT A., AND EDITH BRUCKNER-KARDOSS. Efect of normal microbial flora on intestinal surface area. Am. J. Physiol. 201 (I) : I 75-178. I g6 I .-The mucosal surface area of the small intestine was determined in young adult, germfree and conventional rats. On the average, the germfree values were found to be 307~ lower than those of conventional animals. This reduction was pronounced in t...

This work aims to study changes on physicochemical (pH, aw) and microbial (lactic acid bacteria, Staphylococci and Enterobacteriaceae) properties of Kaddid during traditional and industrial processing by different salting and drying modalities and during storage. pH and water activity showed a significant decrease during the processing and the storage stages of Kaddid. This decrease was not aff...

GORDON, HELMUT A., AND EDITH BRUCKNER-KARDOSS. Efect of normal microbial flora on intestinal surface area. Am. J. Physiol. 201 (I) : I 75-178. I g6 I .-The mucosal surface area of the small intestine was determined in young adult, germfree and conventional rats. On the average, the germfree values were found to be 307~ lower than those of conventional animals. This reduction was pronounced in t...

Digital image processing (DIP) of bacterial smears is a new method of analysing the composition of the gut microbial flora. This method provides the opportunity to compare and evaluate differences in the complex highly concentrated anaerobic fraction of gut microbial flora, based on micromorphological differences. There is ample evidence that this fraction can be characterized as related or unr...

The functioning of the human body constitutes a complex interplay of human processes and ‘services’ rendered to us by the 1000 trillion microbial cells we carry. Disruption of this natural microbial flora is linked to infection, autoimmune diseases and cancer, but detailed knowledge about our microbial component remains scarce [1]. Recent technological advances such as metagenomics and next-gen...