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Temporal dynamics of the gut microbiota in people sharing a confined environment, a 520-day ground-based space simulation, MARS500

Overview of attention for article published in Microbiome, March 2017
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Title
Temporal dynamics of the gut microbiota in people sharing a confined environment, a 520-day ground-based space simulation, MARS500
Published in
Microbiome, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40168-017-0256-8
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Authors

Silvia Turroni, Simone Rampelli, Elena Biagi, Clarissa Consolandi, Marco Severgnini, Clelia Peano, Sara Quercia, Matteo Soverini, Franck G. Carbonero, Giovanna Bianconi, Petra Rettberg, Francesco Canganella, Patrizia Brigidi, Marco Candela

Abstract

The intestinal microbial communities and their temporal dynamics are gaining increasing interest due to the significant implications for human health. Recent studies have shown the dynamic behavior of the gut microbiota in free-living, healthy persons. To date, it is not known whether these dynamics are applicable during prolonged life sharing in a confined and controlled environment. The MARS500 project, the longest ground-based space simulation ever, provided us with a unique opportunity to trace the crew microbiota over 520 days of isolated confinement, such as that faced by astronauts in real long-term interplanetary space flights, and after returning to regular life, for a total of 2 years. According to our data, even under the strictly controlled conditions of an enclosed environment, the human gut microbiota is inherently dynamic, capable of shifting between different steady states, typically with rearrangements of autochthonous members. Notwithstanding a strong individuality in the overall gut microbiota trajectory, some key microbial components showed conserved temporal dynamics, with potential implications for the maintenance of a health-promoting, mutualistic microbiota configuration. Sharing life in a confined habitat does not affect the resilience of the individual gut microbial ecosystem, even in the long term. However, the temporal dynamics of certain microbiota components should be monitored when programming future mission simulations and real space flights, to prevent breakdowns in the metabolic and immunological homeostasis of the crewmembers.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sweden 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 120 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 20%
Student > Master 14 11%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Unspecified 5 4%
Other 15 12%
Unknown 28 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 6%
Unspecified 5 4%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 36 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 71. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2023.
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