Dysbiosis of gut microbiota is closely related to occurrence of many important chronic
inflammations-related diseases. So far the traditionally prescribed prebiotics and probiotics …

Obesity is reaching global epidemic proportions as a result of factors such as high-calorie
diets and lack of physical exercise. Obesity is now considered to be a medical condition …

Studies on the role of gut commensal bacteria in health development have rapidly attracted
much more attention beyond the classical pathogens over the last decade. Many important …

Obesity is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation and intestinal dysbiosis.
Ganoderma lucidum is a medicinal mushroom used in traditional Chinese medicine with …

Objective The medicinal fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis and its anamorph Hirsutella
sinensis have a long history of use in traditional Chinese medicine for their …

Objective Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a global disease characterised
by chronic obstruction of lung airflow interfering with normal breathing. Although the …

Depression is a mental disorder associated with environmental, genetic and psychological
factors. Recent studies indicate that chronic neuro-inflammation may affect brain physiology …

Abstract Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been extensively used to ameliorate
diseases in Asia for over thousands of years. However, owing to a lack of formal scientific …

Although the mechanisms underlying the cytotoxic effect of NK cells on tumor cells and
intracellular bacteria have been studied extensively, it remains unclear how these cells kill …

More than 100 trillion (1014) microbes inhabit the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and the
total number of genes derived from these microbes exceeds that of the human genome by at …