Non-nutritive sweeteners possess a bacteriostatic effect and alter gut microbiota in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2018, Pages

  Wang, Qiao Ping ^a,b   Browman, Duncan ^c   Herzog, Herbert ^c   Gregory Neely, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONNUTRITIVE SWEETENER; ACETOSULFAME; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; THIAZINE DERIVATIVE; TRICHLOROSUCROSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOSTASIS; BACTEROIDETES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; APPETITE; BODY WEIGHT; CARBONATED BEVERAGE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; STEVIA; TASTE;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; BACTEROIDETES; BODY WEIGHT; CARBONATED BEVERAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; MICE; NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS; SACCHARIN; STEVIA; SUCROSE; TASTE; THIAZINES;

EID: 85049507771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199080     Document Type: Article

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