León, Gto February 26, 2018.- Researchers from Campus León of the University of Guanajuato (UG), the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Cambridge, collaborate in a project in which they work to characterize the intestinal microbiome in Mexican patients who have different metabolic disorders.

With the above, it seeks to identify some bacteria that could have beneficial effects on the human organism to use as a treatment of some diseases.

Venue San Carlos of UG's Campus León was the meeting point for analyzing the results of the first phase of the project entitled "Intestinal microbiome in Mexican patients with diabetes" in which researchers and students from the three institutions work together. It should be noted that this initiative began in the year 2016 with the efforts of Dr. Ma. of Lourdes Reyes chosen and Dr. Rodolfo saved Mendoza, both professors researchers of the Department of Medicine and Nutrition.

Dr. Rodolfo Guardado Mendoza said in an interview that studying intestinal bacteria with different clinical methods and evaluation techniques can know the relationship of these bacteria with metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity. In addition, it can also determine the types of bacteria that are most frequently found in people with high metabolic risk and the effects of their possible manipulation, "we have some type of bacteria in the intestine and can be related to Metabolic alterations" he indicated.

Likewise, he commented that he worked in the UG Metabolism Research Laboratory with samples of five hundred people with different metabolic risks to obtain data that are being analyzed.

He added that in "the second stage of this project we will include the analysis of this intestinal microbiota, but in patients who are subjected to some treatment of diabetes control or some treatment of prevention of diabetes" with which one can know how a patient responds to treatment and changes in the composition of the bacteria and to specify if they are related to the metabolic changes of the patients.

Finally, he commented that this project has impact on several levels because it allows the generation of original scientific knowledge of which there is not so much information about it, "the impact is scientific so it will generate in terms of knowledge, the impact of course is academic because they involve graduate and some undergraduate students and then contribute to the formation of high quality human resources participating in first level projects" he said.

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