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Gender Differences in Bile Acids and Microbiota in Relationship with Gender Dissimilarity in Steatosis Induced by Diet and FXR Inactivation.
Scientific reports - 11 May 2017
Sheng Lili, Jena Prasant Kumar, Liu Hui-Xin, Kalanetra Karen M, Gonzalez Frank J, French Samuel W, Krishnan Viswanathan V, Mills David A, Wan Yu-Jui Yvonne
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This study aims to uncover how specific bacteria and bile acids (BAs) contribute to steatosis induced by diet and farnesoid X receptor (FXR) deficiency in both genders. A control diet (CD) and Western diet (WD), which contains high fat and carbohydrate, were used to feed wild type (WT) and FXR knockout (KO) mice followed by phenotyping characterization as well as BA and microbiota profiling. Our data revealed...
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