- present tense form of compound (3rd person singular).
compounds
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One, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how plant fiber and certain proteins influence gut bacteria to favor the production of beneficial compounds over potentially harmful ones.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
However, this approach depends on an important assumption: that intestinal microbes are responsible for producing most or all of the compounds researchers want to influence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
The second demonstrates that the body itself can produce many compounds once believed to originate exclusively from gut bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
The other, published in Nature Metabolism in June, challenges the longstanding belief that many important chemical compounds circulating in the body originate exclusively from intestinal microbes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
That night there was silence all over the camp, from our little homes to the Lost Boys’ compounds.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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