Article
Male castration alters the gut microbiota, leading to increased serum levels of branched-chain amino acids and adiposity
2019-12-13
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Testosterone deficiency is positively correlated with fat accumulation and obesity-related comorbidities, such as metabolic syndrome. Castration of young males is widely used in the cattle industry to improve meat quality. However, the mechanism linking hypogonadism and host metabolism is not clear. We aimed to evaluate the effect of male hypogonadism on the gut microbiota a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 13cac594-0ffd-5c83-a70c-9f021adc3976
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.18877/v1
