Viewpoint: Understanding how the gut microbiome can impact on drugs - GP online

Better knowledge of how gut microbes can affect the pharmacological and toxicological profiles of some drugs is providing new insight into how drugs work and sometimes why they don’t, explain Professors Julian R. Marchesi and Jonathan Swann.

For decades the long-held belief was that infectious agents, mainly viruses and bacteria, along with the genes that you inherit and the mutations they acquire, were responsible for the many diseases … [+6337 chars]

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