Palva A

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
other 2011
Gut pathogens ·doi:10.1186/1757-4749-3-6

BACKGROUND: Growing amount of scientific evidence suggests that microbes are involved in the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The predominant fecal microbiota composition of IBS subjects has been widely studied with DNA-ba…

rct 2010
BMC gastroenterology ·doi:10.1186/1471-230x-10-110

BACKGROUND: Probiotics can alleviate the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), possibly by stabilizing the intestinal microbiota. Our aim was to determine whether IBS-associated bacterial alterations were reduced during multispecies p…

observational 2009
World journal of gastroenterology ·doi:10.3748/wjg.15.5936

AIM: To study whether selected bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene phylotypes are capable of distinguishing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). METHODS: The faecal microbiota of twenty volunteers with IBS, subdivided into eight diarrhoea-p…

observational 2009
BMC gastroenterology ·doi:10.1186/1471-230x-9-95

BACKGROUND: A growing amount of scientific evidence suggests that microbes are involved in the aetiology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota of individuals suffering from diarrhoea-predominant IBS (IB…

other 2009
BMC microbiology ·doi:10.1186/1471-2180-9-68

BACKGROUND: The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiota is characterised by an abundance of uncultured bacteria most often assigned in phyla Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. Diversity of this microbiota, even though approached with cultur…