author keywords: Gut microbiome; Prebiotics; Bifidobacterium; Intestinal permeability; Host-microbiota interactions; Diet; Antibiotics; Metagenomics; Transcriptomics; Organoids

MeSH headings : Aging / drug effects; Aging / genetics; Aging / physiology; Animals; Female; Gastrointestinal Microbiome / drug effects; Intestines / drug effects; Intestines / microbiology; Intestines / physiology; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Oligosaccharides / pharmacology; Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / metabolism; Prebiotics; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / metabolism

TL;DR: Stools from mice exhibiting variable bifidogenic response to GOS injected into colon organoids in the presence of prebiotics reproduced the response and non-response phenotypes observed in vivo suggesting that the composition and functionality of the microbiota are the main contributors to the phenotype. (via Semantic Scholar)