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Slimming down via the microbiota

Nature Medicine volume 19, pages 1374–1375 (2013)Cite this article

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Oluf Pedersen

In their recent work, the Gordon laboratory convincingly substantiates their and other investigators' previous discoveries that once a microbial gut ecosystem is established, specific microbiota and their associated phenotypes are transmissible from one species to another1,2,3. They elegantly extend this proof of principle to show that it also holds true for selected bacterial cultures. Intriguingly, in mouse co-housing experiments, the investigators showed that the effect of obese microbiota can be prevented by lean microbiota combined with a feeding pattern that resembles a prudent diet low in saturated fat.

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