Prebiotics and Probiotics
A section of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Section Information
Despite some recently voiced skepticism on the value of prebiotics and probiotics in human medicine, this field remains very dynamic and keeps expanding as the role of gut microbiota is quickly reaching center stage in a variety of health-related issues.
This Section of Nutrients aims to provide the reader with innovative findings from bench research as well as from controlled clinical trials as well as up-to-date, fair, balanced reviews, rigorously free from commercial bias and providing the newest information most relevant to healthcare providers. We aim at an audience that includes physician scientists, practicing clinicians, dietitians, and nurses, so they can be presented with up-to-date, fair and strictly evidence-based answer to some of the many questions currently open for the potential use of prebiotics, probiotics, and the new kid in town: postbiotics.
The interaction of pre- and probiotics, both old and new, genetically engineered with gut microbiota, promises to unfold an exciting range of clinical implications, and this section aims to be at the forefront of this frontier.
The challenge of the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has even offered an unexpected opportunity for probiotics to show their anti-inflammatory potential, a welcome addition to the limited therapeutic weaponry.
We are thus inviting all potential authors working on gut microbiota—from basic science, as well as translational and clinical investigators and recognized authorities in this area—to continue to populate this growing Section by providing their data as well as rigorous analyses and syntheses of the currently available evidence to help to maintain a robust database of current, reliable, and valuable information.
Topics:
- Gut microbiota: more than the old, dull “microflora”
- Prebiotic and probiotics: the traditional, the newcomers, the future ones
- Pre-, pro-, and postbiotics as “influencers” of the gut microbiota
- Did prebiotics fail to achieve their potential?
- Probiotics not simply for gut health, but beyond:
- Gut–brain axis implications in neurology and psychiatry
- Chronic inflammation
- Autoimmune disorders
- Arthritis
- Obesity
- Skin disorders
- Food allergies
- Are we ready for the new concept of postbiotics?
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Advanced Microbial Biotechnologies for Food Nutrition and Human Well-Being (Deadline: 15 April 2024)
- The Impact of Probiotics/Prebiotics and Functional Foods in Human Health (Deadline: 15 April 2024)
- Dietary Habit, Gut Microbiome and Human Health (Deadline: 15 April 2024)
- New Paradigms in the Diet and Microbiome Relationship (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Gut Microbiota with Chronic Disease (Deadline: 15 May 2024)
- Probiotics, Prebiotics and Gut Health (Deadline: 15 May 2024)
- The Role of Probiotics on Gut Health (Deadline: 5 June 2024)
- The Relationship between Nutrition, Microbiota and the Gut–Brain Axis (Deadline: 25 June 2024)
- Diet and Nutritional Intervention for the Infant Gut Microbiome—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 June 2024)
- Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Gut Symbiosis (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Nutrition, Gut Microbiome and Metabolism (Deadline: 5 July 2024)
- The Gut-Brain Axis in Diet-Induced Obesity: Role of Intestinal Nutrient Sensing (Deadline: 25 July 2024)
- Diet and Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis: A Novel Nutritional Therapy (Deadline: 25 July 2024)
- Prebiotic and Probiotic Intake Benefits for Gut Health (Deadline: 25 July 2024)
- The Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Immunomodulation (Deadline: 25 July 2024)
- The Latest Research on Probiotics: Nourishing Health or Pathways to Disease Resolution (Deadline: 5 September 2024)
- Gut Microbiota in Kidney Disease: Potential Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- Physical Exercise and Nutrition on the Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- Effects of Prebiotics, Probiotics on Dysbiosis of Gut Microbiota and Gut Health (Deadline: 5 October 2024)
- Prebiotics and Probiotics in Metabolism Disorder (Deadline: 5 October 2024)
- Interaction between Gut Microbiota and Obesity (Deadline: 15 October 2024)
- Probiotics and Their Metabolites in Human Health (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- The Influence and Prebiotics and Probiotics on the Microbiome—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- Diet, Gut Microbiota, and Gastrointestinal Disease (Deadline: 5 November 2024)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: