Dibyajyoti Banerjee
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
Title: The importance of butyrate producing taxa of gut microbiome
Biography
Biography: Dibyajyoti Banerjee
Abstract
Butyrate producing taxa of the gut microbiome ferments carbohydrate and produces a short chain fatty acid butyrate. Butyrate is getting recognized with various physiological roles including control of metabolism towards a healthy shift. Recently it is proved that metformin , a biguanide class of drug which is beneficial for type 2 diabetes mellitus increases the butyrate producing taxa of the gut microbiome. Authorities believe that this is one of the important mechanisms of action of metformin apart from AMPK activation. Butyrate is proved to be beneficial in a number of disease conditions including malignancy and tuberculosis. The author believes that such issue can be explored for novel drug development for diabetes , obesity and tuberculosis . To simply put that butyrate in appropriate formulation has the potential to control the metabolic epidemic and the associated tuberculosis that the modern world is facing. These issues will be discussed in my presentation.