A new target for treating intervertebral disk degeneration: gut microbes

Kaizhong Wang, Xiangyan Liu, Huagui Huang, Moran Suo, Jinzuo Wang, Xin Liu, Jing Zhang, Xin Chen, Zhonghai Li · 2024

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Kaizhong Wang and eight co-authors review, in 2024 work, gut germs as a fresh target for worn spine disks. A worn disk is a lead cause of low back pain, and age alone does not explain it. Drugs can breed reliance with weak relief, and surgery is harsh with a fair rate of return pain. A new line of work eyes the gut.

Gut germs and their waste goods steer swelling, guard force balance, and body burn paths, each of which can reach the disk. The review first shows how gut germs sway far organs, then walks three paths by which they may wear the disk. It ends with ways to treat the gut itself, from diet to germ swaps, as disk care.

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CREATORKaizhong Wang, Xiangyan Liu, Huagui Huang, Moran Suo, Jinzuo Wang, Xin Liu, Jing Zhang, Xin Chen, Zhonghai Li
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE46 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11638241

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