The gut microbiota regulates white adipose tissue inflammation and obesity via a family of microRNAs

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 496, 2019, Pages

  Virtue, Anthony T ^a,b,c   McCright, Sam J ^a,b   Wright, Jasmine M ^a,b   Jimenez, Monica T ^a,b   Mowel, Walter K ^a,b   Kotzin, Jonathan J ^a,b   Joannas, Leonel ^a,b   Basavappa, Megha G ^a,b   Spencer, Sean P ^a,b   Clark, Megan L ^a,b   Eisennagel, Stephen H ^c   Williams, Adam ^d   Levy, Maayan ^a,b,e   Manne, Sasikanth ^b   Henrickson, Sarah E ^b,f   John Wherry, E ^b   Thaiss, Christoph A ^a,b,e   Elinav, Eran ^e   Henao Mejia, Jorge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 181; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET INDUCED OBESITY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FAT MASS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TNAA GENE; UPREGULATION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MICE; MICRORNAS; OBESITY; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 85068174104     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aav1892     Document Type: Article

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