Gut microbiota composition correlates with changes in body fat content due to weight loss

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 431-439

  Remely, M ^a   Tesar, I ^a   Hippe, B ^a   Gnauer, S ^a   Rust, P ^a   Haslberger, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bioelectrical impedance analysis; Butyryl CoA: acetate CoA transferase gene; Firmicutes Bacteroidetes ratio

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACETATE COA TRANSFERASE GENE; ADULT; AKKERMANSIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDETES; BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FAT CONTENT; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FIRMICUTES; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFESTYLE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERRUCOMICROBIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84931404321     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2014.0104     Document Type: Article

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