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  2. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth - Wikipedia

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    Bacterial overgrowth can cause a variety of symptoms, many of which are also found in other conditions, making the diagnosis challenging at times. [4] Many of the symptoms are due to malabsorption of nutrients due to the effects of bacteria which either metabolize nutrients or cause inflammation of the small bowel, impairing absorption.

  3. Gut bacteria may influence our stress response, a mouse study ...

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    Results further indicated that gut bacteria changes may change the rhythm of stress pathways in parts of the brain that regulate “the stress response,” and that microbial depletion changes the ...

  4. Hydrogen breath test - Wikipedia

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    Hydrogen breath tests are based on the fact that there is no source for hydrogen gas in humans other than bacterial metabolism of carbohydrates. [4] Even though the test is normally known as a "hydrogen" breath test, some physicians may also test for methane in addition to hydrogen. Many studies have shown that some patients (approximately 35% ...

  5. Flatulence - Wikipedia

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    Hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane are all produced in the gut and contribute 74% of the volume of flatus in normal subjects. [24] Methane and hydrogen are flammable, and so flatus can be ignited if it contains adequate amounts of these components. [25] Not all humans produce flatus that contains methane.

  6. Gut microbiota - Wikipedia

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    Gut microbiota, gut microbiome, or gut flora are the microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, that live in the digestive tracts of animals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The gastrointestinal metagenome is the aggregate of all the genomes of the gut microbiota .

  7. Methanobrevibacter smithii - Wikipedia

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    Methanobrevibacter smithii is the predominant methanogenic archaeon in the microbiota of the human gut. [1] M. smithii has a coccobacillus shape.It plays an important role in the efficient digestion of polysaccharides (complex sugars) by consuming the end products of bacterial fermentation (H 2, CO 2, acetate, and formate). [2]

  8. Gastroparesis - Wikipedia

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    Gastroparesis (gastro- from Ancient Greek γαστήρ – gaster, "stomach"; and -paresis, πάρεσις – "partial paralysis") is a medical disorder of ineffective neuromuscular contractions (peristalsis) of the stomach, resulting in food and liquid remaining in the stomach for a prolonged period of time.

  9. Stomach rumble - Wikipedia

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    A stomach rumble, also known as a bowel sound, peristaltic sound, abdominal sound, bubble gut or borborygmus (pronounced / ˌ b ɔːr b ə ˈ r ɪ ɡ m ə s /; plural borborygmi), is a rumbling, growling or gurgling noise produced by movement of the contents of the gastrointestinal tract as they are propelled through the small intestine by a series of muscle contractions called peristalsis. [1]