ESPE Abstracts

Mounting evidence indicates an intricate relationship between the gut microbiome (GM) and type 1 diabetes (T1D). Controlled experiments with non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse model have demonstrated that the gut microbiome harbours both protective and harmful features that may influence the type 1 diabetes disease process. Common findings from human studies are, for example, that individuals who later developed T1D had increased abundance of Bacteroides spp. and decrease...