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The microbiome: a gut feeling about drug metabolism
Author(s) -
Greener Mark
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1696
Subject(s) - microbiome , gut microbiome , medicine , boosting (machine learning) , drug , drug metabolism , human health , disease , feeling , bioinformatics , computational biology , pharmacology , biology , environmental health , computer science , psychology , social psychology , machine learning
The human gut microbiome has a crucial role in both health and disease, including drug metabolism. Recent research indicates that boosting the microbiome (for example, by using pro or prebiotics) is a promising therapeutic strategy that could enhance the efficacy and reduce the toxicity of many medicines.