Today's misleading overselling the #microbiome - U. Chicago on Alzheimer's and gut microbes

< a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i_wzC7Apkgo/V5IplrHZL_I/AAAAAAAKuOk/usgLJLhEnNARUqyVuE_Hp47pIhlyEZ1ygCK4B/s1600/overselling-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" > < img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i_wzC7Apkgo/V5IplrHZL_I/AAAAAAAKuOk/usgLJLhEnNARUqyVuE_Hp47pIhlyEZ1ygCK4B/s400/overselling-1.jpg" / > < /a > < br / > Well, this is disappointing if not disturbing < br / > < br / > A new paper is out that has some interesting findings but the paper itself, and the press release form the authors (at University of Chicago) really goes overboard in misstating the findings. < br / > < br / > Here is the < a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/srep30028" > paper in Scientific Report < /a > s. I purposefully am not putting the title of the paper here in the post yet, because amazingly, even the title is misleading. < br / > < br / > But here is what a summary of what they showed, based on their results section, which seems interesting and sound < br / > < ul > < li > Antibiotic treatment of a variety of mice showed alterations in the GI microbiome and in various inflammatory markers circulating in the blood < /li > < li > Male mice treated with this antibiotic regime showed reduced A β plaque deposition but increased soluble Aβ levels < /li > < li > Reactive gliosis surrounding A β plaques is reduced in male mice treated with this antibiotic regime & nbsp; < /li > < /ul > < div > This is not all they report as they also discuss various controls and other observations about these...

Source: The Tree of Life - July 21, 2016 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs