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SUBMITTER: Mistry RH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379190 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mistry Rima H RH Liu Fan F Borewicz Klaudyna K Lohuis Mirjam A M MAM Smidt Hauke H Verkade Henkjan J HJ Tietge Uwe J F UJF
Molecular nutrition & food research 20200525 12
<h4>Scope</h4>The gut microbiota might critically modify metabolic disease development. Dietary fibers such as galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) presumably stimulate bacteria beneficial for metabolic health. This study assesses the impact of GOS on obesity, glucose, and lipid metabolism.<h4>Methods and results</h4>Following Western-type diet feeding (C57BL/6 mice) with or without β-GOS (7% w/w, 15 weeks), body composition, glucose and insulin tolerance, lipid profiles, fat kinetics and microbiota c ...[more]