Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera,William David Duncan,Roderick A. Hyde,Wayne R. Kindsvogel,Elizabeth A. Sweeney
申请号:
US14471242
公开号:
US20160058593A1
申请日:
2014.08.28
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要:
A gastrointestinal device and methods of manufacturing said gastrointestinal device are described and include a flexible tubular structure including a layered wall, the flexible tubular structure including at least one microbe-promoting agent encased in the layered wall, the microbe-promoting agent configured to promote at least one of attraction, colonization, and growth of at least one type of commensal microbe, and a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end and the distal end forming a flow conduit through the flexible tubular structure and at least one anchor structure including one or more gastric wall-engaging components configured to engage a wall of the gastrointestinal tract of the subject.