• High-throughput sequencing-based characterisation of fermented foods and their impacts on host gut microbiota 

  Aaron M., Walsh (University College Cork, 2018)

  Fermentation has been practised worldwide for millennia as a method to preserve or enhance foods, and, today, fermented foods remain a significant component in the human diet. Additionally, these foods are becoming ...
• The glutamatergic system and pain: influence of stress, oestrous cycle and gut microbiota 

  Sajjad, Jahangir (University College Cork, 2019)

  Women have a higher incidence of various visceral and neuropathic chronic pain conditions. Most of the animal studies investigating pain mechanisms show oestrogen to be pronociceptive. However, similar studies in healthy ...
• Enduring neurobehavioural effects induced by early-life microbiota-gut-brain axis alterations 

  Hecke Morais, Livia (University College Cork, 2018)

  There is a growing appreciation of the importance of the bidirectional communication between our gut and brain on regulating the function and development of multiple physiological systems, including the central nervous ...
• Prenatal stress, the placenta and maternal microbial transmission; implications for health and disease 

  Togher, Katie L. (University College Cork, 2018)

  There is an extensive amount of epidemiological evidence showing that prenatal maternal distress (PNMD) is a risk factor for a wide range of poor obstetric and neonatal outcomes, as well as an increased risk for the ...
• Bifidobacterium breve adaption to the gut environment 

  Lanigan, Noreen (University College Cork, 2018)

  Certain strains and species of the genus Bifidobacterium are considered probiotic organisms, whose presence in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) may elicit one or more health benefits to the host. A number of factors impact ...

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