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Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome [1]

The intestinal tract is inhabited by a large and diverse community of microbes collectively referred to as the gut microbiota. While the gut microbiota provides important benefits to its host, especially in metabolism and immune development, disturbance of the microbiota–host relationship is associated with numerous chronic inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease and the group of obesity-associated diseases collectively referred to as metabolic syndrome.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2015
Benoit Chassaing [2], Omry Koren [3], Julia K. Goodrich & et al [4]
Nature [5]
1-19
Tags:
Food Additives [6], Health Effects [7], Obesity [8], Processed Foods [9], Research [10]
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