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Humans as holobionts: implications for prevention and therapy

Overview of attention for article published in Microbiome, May 2018
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Title
Humans as holobionts: implications for prevention and therapy
Published in
Microbiome, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40168-018-0466-8
Pubmed ID
Authors

Maarten van de Guchte, Hervé M. Blottière, Joël Doré

Abstract

The human gut microbiota is increasingly recognized for its important or even decisive role in health. As it becomes clear that microbiota and host mutually affect and depend on each other in an intimate relationship, a holistic view of the gut microbiota-host association imposes itself. Ideally, a stable state of equilibrium, homeostasis, is maintained and serves health, but signs are that perturbation of this equilibrium beyond the limits of resilience can propel the system into an alternative stable state, a pre-disease state, more susceptible to the development of chronic diseases. The microbiota-host equilibrium of a large and growing proportion of individuals in Western society may represent such a pre-disease state and explain the explosive development of chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, and other inflammatory diseases. These diseases themselves represent other alternative stable states again and are therefore hard to cure. The holistic view of the microbiota-host association where feedback loops between microbiota and host are thought to maintain the system in a stable state-be it a healthy, pre-disease, or disease state-implies that integrated approaches, addressing host processes and microbiota, should be used to treat or prevent (pre-)disease.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 228 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 39 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 17%
Researcher 36 16%
Student > Bachelor 17 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 33 14%
Unknown 51 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 52 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 35 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 18 8%
Environmental Science 11 5%
Other 34 15%
Unknown 59 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. 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 06 May 2023.
All research outputs
#663,366
of 25,390,970 outputs
Outputs from Microbiome
#181
of 1,751 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,768
of 332,935 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Microbiome
#6
of 60 outputs
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