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Selective Spectrum Antibiotic Modulation of the Gut Microbiome in Obesity and Diabetes Rodent Models.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Rajpal Deepak K, Klein Jean-Louis, Mayhew David, Boucheron Joyce, Spivak Aaron T, Kumar Vinod, Ingraham Karen, Paulik Mark, Chen Lihong, Van Horn Stephanie, Thomas Elizabeth, Sathe Ganesh, Livi George P, Holmes David J, Brown James R
Abstract excerpt
The gastrointestinal tract microbiome has been suggested as a potential therapeutic target for metabolic diseases such as obesity and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the relationship between changes in microbial communities and metabolic disease-phenotypes are still poorly understood. In this study, we used antibiotics with markedly different antibacterial spectra to modulate the gut microbiome in a...
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