Sentence examples for microbial profiles compared from inspiring English sources
A pediatric study conducted among rural African and European children revealed that African children display strikingly different gut microbial profiles compared with European children, which could be attributed to the different consumption of dietary fiber (14.2 g/d for African children and 8.4 g/d for European children) (De Filippo et al., 2010).
For example, protocols that use bead beating (Brodie et al. 2007; Yamamoto et al. 2012) to mechanically disrupt cells appear to provide better representations of microbial community profiles compared with those that do not (Yuan et al. 2012).
Here we examined how microbial community structure changes within soil profiles, whether these changes are similar across soils from different landscape positions, and how the community-level variation within individual soil depth profiles compares to the variation across surface soils from a wide range of biomes.
Most if not all studies that compare microbial profiles in IBS patients and healthy controls are associative and cannot distinguish cause from consequence.
To understand these effects, Gordon plans to compare the microbial profiles of family members–obese and lean siblings and their mothers–in unprecedented depth.
Numerous studies have demonstrated altered microbial profiles in (specific subgroups of) IBS patients compared with healthy individuals (7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
The sequencing method of choice influenced the detection of microbial profiles as whole-genome sequencing captured more species diversity, including viruses, compared with 16S sequencing.
Cross-geography comparison of microbial profiles using Principle Component Analyses (PCA).
Within two weeks, Khoruts's research shows, the microbial profiles of donor and recipient colons are in sync.
Microbial profiles could also be used in diagnosing, and perhaps even treating, specific diseases.
Only after researchers have generated microbial profiles of many different people will they be able to gauge the normal variability of microbial profiles in people of different ages and origins.
