Researchers in New York have found a gut-boosting molecule that can be mixed with antibiotics to fight off stubborn bugs.
A gut-boosting molecule that can be mixed with antibiotics to fight off stubborn bugs has been identified by New York researchers.
A research team led by Katharina Brandl at the Sloan-Kettering Institute treated mice with antibiotics, and found that levels of Reg3g, a protein made by "friendly" bacteria that kill the gut bacterium vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), dropped by 80 per cent.
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Moving a step further, the researchers gave the mice doses of lipopolysaccharide along with antibiotics to see whether boosting Reg3g levels could help.
LPS is a molecule found on the surface of some bacteria that stimulates the gut to make Reg3g, according to background information in a research article in Nature magazine.
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The researchers said that LPS-antibiotics combo receiving mice also had fewer VRE colonies, about the same number as mice that had taken no antibiotics.
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