Helicobacter pylori colonization ameliorates glucose homeostasis in mice through a PPAR γ-dependent mechanism.

There is an inverse secular trend between the incidence of obesity and gastric colonization with Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can affect the secretion of gastric hormones that relate to energy homeostasis. H. pylori strains that carry the cag pathogenicity island (PAI) interact more intimat...

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Main Authors: Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Barbara Kronsteiner, Adria Carbo, Pinyi Lu, Monica Viladomiu, Mireia Pedragosa, Xiaoying Zhang, Bruno W Sobral, Shrinivasrao P Mane, Saroj K Mohapatra, William T Horne, Amir J Guri, Michael Groeschl, Gabriela Lopez-Velasco, Raquel Hontecillas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3499487?pdf=render