High-fat feeding rather than obesity drives taxonomical and functional changes in the gut microbiota in mice
Abstract Background It is well known that the microbiota of high-fat (HF) diet-induced obese mice differs from that of lean mice, but to what extent, this difference reflects the obese state or the diet is unclear. To dissociate changes in the gut microbiota associated with high HF feeding from thos...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-04-01
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Series: | Microbiome |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0258-6 |