New research has shed light on the complex interactions that underlie the development of
obesity and the metabolic syndrome.“We were able to identify interactions between host …

AIMS: In recent years, gut microbiota have gained a growing interest as an environmental
factor that may affect the predisposition toward adiposity. In this review, we describe and …

The human body is host to a vast number of microbes, including bacterial, fungal, and
protozoal microorganisms, which together constitute our microbiota. Evidence is emerging …

Obesity can be caused by microbes producing metabolites; it is thus important to determine
the correlation between gut microbes and metabolites. This study aimed to identify gut …

Gut microbiota play important roles in host metabolism, especially in diabetes. However,
why different diets lead to similar diabetic states despite being associated with different …

The pathophysiology of obesity and obesity-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes
mellitus (T2DM) is complex and driven by many factors. One of the most recently identified …

Obesity and the metabolic syndrome are complex disorders resulting from multiple factors
including genetics, diet, activity, inflammation, and gut microbes. Animal studies have …

As more children and adults become obese in the US and other countries,
obesityassociated diseases are becoming more prevalent worldwide (Poirier et al., 2006) …

The human gut is a lush microbial ecosystem containing about 100 trillion microorganisms,
whose collective genome, the microbiome, contains 100-fold more genes than the entire …

The potential role of intestinal microbiota in the etiology of various human diseases has
attracted massive attention in the last decade. As such, the intestinal microbiota has been …