[HTML][HTML] Microbiota-gut-brain axis: modulator of host metabolism and appetite

M Van de Wouw, H Schellekens, TG Dinan… - The Journal of nutrition, 2017 - Elsevier
The gut harbors an enormous diversity of microbes that are essential for the maintenance of
homeostasis in health and disease. A growing body of evidence supports the role of this
microbiota in influencing host appetite and food intake. Individual species within the gut
microbiota are under selective pressure arising from nutrients available and other bacterial
species present. Each bacterial species within the gut aims to increase its own fitness,
habitat, and survival via specific fermentation of dietary nutrients and secretion of …