{"id":10655,"date":"2017-11-20T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=10655"},"modified":"2017-11-20T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:35:10","slug":"gut-bacteria-linked-to-multiple-sclerosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/gut-bacteria-linked-to-multiple-sclerosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gut bacteria linked to multiple sclerosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The composition of gut bacteria \u2014 the presence of microbiota in the digestive tracks \u2014 at a young age may contribute to the onset and further progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease, a new study found.<\/p>\n<p>MS is a disabling disease that affects the immune system of the body, whereby the nerve cells of the spinal chord and brain gets damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stated that the gut bacteria along with multiple sclerosis at a young age could also trigger other diseases in later life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The findings could have therapeutic implications on slowing down MS progression by manipulating gut bacteria,&#8221; said Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, professor at the Rutgers University in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The research team transplanted MS-associated risk genes, taken from real patients, into genetically-engineered mice.<\/p>\n<p>At first, when the genetically modified mice were put in a sterile, germ-free environment, they did not develop multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>But when the mice were exposed to a normal environment that would normally contain bacteria, the mice did develop MS-like disease and inflammation in their bowels, which further suggested that the presence of gut bacteria can be counted as a risk factor for triggering multiple sclerosis disease development.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The composition of gut bacteria \u2014 the presence of microbiota in the digestive tracks \u2014 at a young age may contribute to the onset and further progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease, a new study found. MS is a disabling disease that affects the immune system of the body, whereby the nerve cells of the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10657,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions\/10657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}