Obesity pandemics and the modification of digestive bacterial flora
Obesity pandemics and the modification of digestive bacterial flora
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
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English
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
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Environmental factors, such as social networks, have an influence on obesity pandemics. The gut microbial flora (microbiota) plays a role in converting nutrients into calories. Variations in microbiota composition are found in obese humans and mice. The microbiota from an obese mouse confers an obese phenotype when transferred to an axenic mouse. T...
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Obesity pandemics and the modification of digestive bacterial flora
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_954597483
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_954597483
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0934-9723
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1435-4373
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10.1007/s10096-008-0490-x
