High molecular weight barley β-glucan alters gut microbiota toward reduced cardiovascular disease risk

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Yanan ^a,b   Ames, Nancy P ^a,b   Tun, Hein M ^c   Tosh, Susan M ^d   Jones, Peter J ^a   Khafipour, Ehsan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d GUELPH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Cardiovascular disease; Gut microbiota; Molecular weight; glucan

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; RNA 16S; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

16S RRNA GENE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; BARLEY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MEAL; METAGENOMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RICE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WHEAT;

EID: 84962148579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00129     Document Type: Article

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