Gut Microbiota in Chronic GI Diseases

🩺 Protocol Summary

The study involves characterizing the microbiota of patients with IBS, functional diarrhea, IBD, severe motility disorders and celiac disease. This will be complemented by a translational phase of human-mouse hybrid experiments in which germ-free mice will be colonized with feces from these patients with different GI disease and non-disease controls and we will compare symptoms, microbiota composition and histological changes in the gut and in the brain of the mice.

Primary Research Facility: McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario)

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📍 Primary Site Map

Site: McMaster University — Hamilton, Ontario

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