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Resilience of small intestinal beneficial bacteria to the toxicity of soybean oil fatty acids.
eLife - 27 Mar 2018
Di Rienzi Sara C, Jacobson Juliet, Kennedy Elizabeth A, Bell Mary E, Shi Qiaojuan, Waters Jillian L, Lawrence Peter, Brenna J Thomas, Britton Robert A, Walter Jens, Ley Ruth E
Abstract excerpt
Over the past century, soybean oil (SBO) consumption in the United States increased dramatically. The main SBO fatty acid, linoleic acid (18:2), inhibits in vitro the growth of lactobacilli, beneficial members of the small intestinal microbiota. Human-associated lactobacilli have declined in prevalence in Western microbiomes, but how dietary changes may have impacted their ecology is unclear. Here, we compared...
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