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Human Microbiome in Health and Disease, Volume 191, Part A presents updated knowledge on human microbiome as covered by renowned science faculty across the globe. Chapters… Read more
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Human Microbiome in Health and Disease, Volume 191, Part A presents updated knowledge on human microbiome as covered by renowned science faculty across the globe. Chapters in this volume include an introduction to human microbiome, Structure, functions and diversity of healthy human microbiome, Role of human microbiome in cancer, Gut microbiota and gastrointestinal cancer, Dysbiosis of human microbiome and metabolic diseases, Gut microbiome and type 2 diabetes, Gut microbiome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Hepatic drug metabolism and intestinal microbiota, Emerging tools for understanding the human microbiome, and Microbiome therapeutics: Opportunity and challenges, and more.
These chapters cover the composition, diversity, dynamics and functions of human microbiome in health and disease. This book will form an excellent and informative text on keystone, autochthonous, and exogenous microbiota important for human health in a simple to understand and easy to read format.
Basic researchers, Clinicians, Pharmacologists, Graduate students
Preface
Bhabatosh Das and Vijai Singh
1. An introduction to human microbiome
Bhabatosh Das
2. Emerging tools for understanding the human microbiome
Tarini Shankar Ghosh and Mrinmoy Das
3. Structure, functions, and diversity of the healthy human microbiome
Taruna Ahrodia, Santanu Das, Susmita Bakshi and Bhabatosh Das
4. An overview of cancer and the human microbiome
Soumendu Mahapatra, Smrutishree Mohanty, Rasmita Mishra and Punit Prasad
5. Gut microbiota in gastrointestinal diseases
Gargi Bhattacherjee, Khushal Khambhati, Nisarg Gohil, Priyanka Singh, Jigresh Gohil, Bijun Snehi, Rupesh Maurya, Dinh-Toi Chu, Suresh Ramakrishna and Vijai Singh
6. Gut dysbiosis and metabolic diseases
Purbita Bandopadhyay and Dipyaman Ganguly
7. Gut microbiome and type 2 diabetes
Sweta Patel, Sriram Seshadri and Sarat Dalai
8. Gut microbiome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Ayushi Purohit, Md Jahangir Alam, Bharti Kandiyal, Shalimar, Bhabatosh Das and Sanjay K. Banerjee
9. Hepatic drug metabolism and gut microbiome
Tanshi Mehrotra and Subir Kumar Maulik
10. Microbiome-based therapeutics: Opportunity and challenges
Archana Pant and Bhabatosh Das
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Dr Vijai Singh is a Professor and Dean (Research & Innovation) at School of Sciences, Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences, School of Sciences, Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. Prior this this, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India with a research focus on the development of molecular and immunoassays for diagnosis of Aeromonas hydrophila. His research interests are focused on building novel biosynthetic pathways for production of medically and industrially important biomolecules. Additionally, his laboratory is working on CRISPR-Cas9 tools for genome editing. He has more than 11 years of research and teaching experience in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, microbiology, and industrial microbiology. He has published 100 articles, 70 chapters, 15 books and 3 patents. He serves as an associate editor, editorial board member, and reviewer of several peer-reviewed journals. He is also a member of the Board of Study and Academic Council of Indrashil University and is the Member Secretary of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) at the same University.