Gut Remediation of Environmental Pollutants -

Gut Remediation of Environmental Pollutants

Potential Roles of Probiotics and Gut Microbiota

Xiangkai Li, Pu Liu (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
245 Seiten
2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-15-4758-4 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt
This book focuses on probiotics and gut microbiota, as well as their roles in alleviating the toxicity of various environmental pollutants, presenting the latest research findings and explaining advanced research methods and tools. At the same time, it offers suggestions for future research directions. Further, the book introduces readers to the concept of gut remediation, a potential approach to reducing environmental-pollutant toxicity in vivo, based on modulation of gut microbiota using probiotic supplements. Lastly it provides suggestions for further reading.

Xiangkai Li is a Professor and the Director of Microbiology at the School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University. He also serves as an editor of Science of the Total Environment and Scientific Reports, and is a board member of the Chinese Society of Microbiology’s Environmental Microbiology Division. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from Wuhan University, China and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Oklahoma, USA. Before joining Lanzhou University, he served as a postdoc, pursuing research in the field of microbiomes and nutrition at Baylor College of Medicine, USA.

Chapter 1: Gut microbiota.- Chapter 2: Probiotics and gut microbiota.- Chapter 3: Probiotics, gut microbiota and heavy metals.- Chapter 4: Probiotics, gut microbiota and pesticides.- Chapter 5: Probiotics, gut microbiota and antibiotics.- Chapter 6: Probiotics, gut microbiota and other persistent organic pollutants.- Chapter 7: Gut microbiota, probiotics and biological contaminants.- Chapter 8: Gut remediation.- Chapter 9: Prospective.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 245 p. 22 illus., 20 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Singapore
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Klinische Umweltmedizin
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 981-15-4758-0 / 9811547580
ISBN-13 978-981-15-4758-4 / 9789811547584
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