The importance of the gut microbiota after bariatric surgery

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 590-598

  Aron Wisnewsky, Judith ^a   Doré, Joel ^b   Clement, Karine ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FENFLURAMINE; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTEROIDES; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BIOENERGY; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROHEPATIC CIRCULATION; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; GASTRIC BANDING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROUX EN Y GASTRIC BYPASS; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; STOMACH BYPASS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BARIATRIC SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MICE; OBESITY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84867221193     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2012.161     Document Type: Review

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