How to Use microbiota in a Sentence
microbiota
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Your navel also has microbiota, just like the rest of your skin.
—Sarah Leupen, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
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Between one to ten percent of the mass and half the cells in animals are microbiota.
—Jason Pontin, WIRED, 15 June 2018
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Navedo and his students cast cannon nets over the birds and catch 30 to 40 of them at a time to sample their gut microbiota.
—Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
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Why go through all this again, the hideous miracle of the human microbiota?
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 May 2020
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The gut is packed with microbiota that either need to be fed to grow and strengthen, or need to be deprived in order to weaken.
—Pamela Nisevich Bede, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2020
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There’s growing evidence of a link between the brain and our microbiota as well.
—Jasenka Zubcevic and Christopher Martyniuk, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
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The time of day when people eat also can throw microbiota off-kilter.
—Larry M. Greenberg, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2017
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And the skin, gut and tongue microbiota were all more alike among family members compared to outsiders.
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
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In other words, their gut microbiota could simply be a byproduct of their lifestyle.
—Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2020
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Iron in the water adhered to the trapped, rotting microbiota, hardening the structure.
—Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
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The idea, usually, is to alter organisms in the gut, where about 99 percent of human microbiota live.
—Fortune, 12 June 2018
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The researchers found that microbiota were at least partially restored, but the study only involved four babies, and there wasn’t any long term follow-up.
—Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
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The healthier the diet, the healthier the microbiota, in other words, and the better the digestive system can function.
—Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2019
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The gut microbiota is made up of trillions of microbes that play a role in digestion, immunity, and overall health.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
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In the gut, ACE2 plays many roles including regulating the ecology of the gut microbiota.
—Katrin Legg, Scientific American, 24 June 2021
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The researchers are going to search for the causes of PSC, studying the role of genes, microbiota, environmental triggers, and the immune system.
—BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
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The differences between their gut microbiotas were clear-cut.
—Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2019
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Over the course of 12 months, the study participants assigned the Mediterranean diet were less likely to lose diversity in their gut microbiota.
—Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2020
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The gut microbiota is the community of microorganisms that live in the gastrointestinal tract.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
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These bacteria were absent or present at very low levels in the microbiotas of nearly all c-section babies after birth.
—Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2019
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What's more, the specific type of fiber found in onions (as well as garlic, wheat, and legumes) may more effectively feed the beneficial microbiota than the fiber found in other foods, a 2018 meta-analysis found.
—Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 21 Jan. 2021
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Parents interested in caring for their child's gut microbiota for weight management or overall health can look to whole food sources.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 7 Sep. 2020
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Studies show that the microbiota of obese people differs from that of lean individuals.
—Robert J. Davis, Time, 24 Sep. 2021
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The collection of bacteria found in the healthy stool — called the microbiota — repopulate the colon of the patient, and essentially crowd out the infectious bacteria.
—Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 13 June 2019
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Already, this research has led to a therapy called FMT, or fecal microbiota transplant.
—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2016
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But, according to a new study, this fast isn’t fatal to the body’s microbiota because of a clever trick the intestines perform: producing sugars to sustain their resident microbes.
—Bethany Hubbard, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014
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At this point, this non-digested food mass will be bombarded by our intestinal microbiota.
—Anthony Martin, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2016
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Even a pathogen-free donor’s microbiota can vary from one day to another, depending on factors such as her diet, stress level and menstrual cycle.
—Monique Brouillette, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
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Different combinations of gut microbiota can enhance or blunt the effectiveness of a pill.
—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
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There have been some animal studies linking artificial sweeteners (aspartame, but also sucralose and saccharine) to gut microbiota changes that could lead to glucose intolerance, which could lead to diabetes.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 July 2023
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