| Literature DB >> 23040064 |
Alice P Liou1, Peter J Turnbaugh.
Abstract
Recent research suggests that obesity may be influenced not only by dietary and genetic risk factors, but also by the trillions of microorganisms inhabiting our gastrointestinal tract. Consistent with this notion, Cho et al. (2012) use mice to demonstrate that subtherapeutic antibiotic treatment promotes adiposity.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 23040064 PMCID: PMC3494989 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2012.09.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Metab ISSN: 1550-4131 Impact factor: 27.287