High fat diet alters gut microbiota but not spatial working memory in early middle-aged Sprague Dawley rats.

As the global population ages, and rates of dementia rise, understanding lifestyle factors that play a role in the development and acceleration of cognitive decline is vital to creating therapies and recommendations to improve quality of later life. Obesity has been shown to increase risk for dement...

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Main Authors: Nikita Girish Deshpande, Juhi Saxena, Tristan G Pesaresi, Casey Dylan Carrell, Grayson Breneman Ashby, Min-Ken Liao, Linnea Ruth Freeman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217553