Volume 5, Number 2, Year 2015

Special Issue: Intestinal Microbiota of Childhood: Dybiosis and Disease

Guest Editors: Dr. Yuichiro Yamashiro and Dr. Kazunari Kaneko


Guest Editorial
Kazunari Kaneko
Intestinal microbiota of childhood: Dysbiosis and diseases.


Review Articles
Ravinder Nagpal and Yuichiro Yamashiro
Early-life Gut Microbial Composition.


Shoji Tsuji and Kazunari Kaneko
Antibiotics usage and intestinal microbiota


Lijuan Wu and Hung-Chih Lin
Role of intestinal microflora on necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants.


Andrew S. Day
Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Intestinal Microbiota


Yuichiro Yamashiro, Ravinder Nagpal, and Satoru Nagata
Metabolic Disease: Obesity, Malnutrition, and Intestinal Microbiota


Eishika Dissanayake and Naoki Shimojo
Asthma, Atopy, and Intestinal Microbiota


Nobuyuki Sudo
Brain–Gut Axis and Gut Microbiota: Possible Role of Gut Microbiota in Childhood Mental Health and Diseases