Probiotics interventions modulating gut microbiota composition in individuals with intestinal constipation: Protocol of a systemic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Zubing Mei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zubing Mei, Peixin Du, Ye Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: herrmayor@126.com (ZM); szlaugh@163.com (ZS); zd1232@sina.com (DZ)

  ¶‡ ZM, ZS and DZ also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors

  Affiliations Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6823-7205

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• Peixin Du ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zubing Mei, Peixin Du, Ye Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Ye Han ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zubing Mei, Peixin Du, Ye Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Zhuo Shao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: herrmayor@126.com (ZM); szlaugh@163.com (ZS); zd1232@sina.com (DZ)

  ¶‡ ZM, ZS and DZ also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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• De Zheng

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: herrmayor@126.com (ZM); szlaugh@163.com (ZS); zd1232@sina.com (DZ)

  ¶‡ ZM, ZS and DZ also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors

  Affiliations Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China

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