The gut microbiota and obesity: from correlation to causality

The genetics of human obesity

(2013) Qianghua Xia et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Gut Microbiota Regulates Bile Acid Metabolism by Reducing the Levels of Tauro-beta-muricholic Acid, a Naturally Occurring FXR Antagonist

(2013) Sama I. Sayin et al.   Cell Metabolism

Genetic Control of Obesity and Gut Microbiota Composition in Response to High-Fat, High-Sucrose Diet in Mice

(2013) Brian W. Parks et al.   Cell Metabolism

Pathophysiology of Human Visceral Obesity: An Update

(2013) André Tchernof et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Host-Derived Nitrate Boosts Growth of E. coli in the Inflamed Gut

(2013) S. E. Winter et al.   SCIENCE

Modulation of gut microbiota by antibiotics improves insulin signalling in high-fat fed mice

(2012) B. M. Carvalho et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Transfer of Intestinal Microbiota From Lean Donors Increases Insulin Sensitivity in Individuals With Metabolic Syndrome

(2012) Anne Vrieze et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

An opportunistic pathogen isolated from the gut of an obese human causes obesity in germfree mice

(2012) Na Fei et al.   ISME Journal

Structural resilience of the gut microbiota in adult mice under high-fat dietary perturbations

(2012) Chenhong Zhang et al.   ISME Journal

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

The gut microbiota, obesity and insulin resistance

(2012) Jian Shen et al.   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

(2012) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity

(2012) Ilseung Cho et al.   NATURE

Compositional Development of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus Microbiota Is Linked with Crying and Fussing in Early Infancy

(2012) Anna Pärtty et al.   PLoS One

Butyrate and Propionate Protect against Diet-Induced Obesity and Regulate Gut Hormones via Free Fatty Acid Receptor 3-Independent Mechanisms

(2012) Hua V. Lin et al.   PLoS One

Structural Changes of Gut Microbiota during Berberine-Mediated Prevention of Obesity and Insulin Resistance in High-Fat Diet-Fed Rats

(2012) Xu Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Analysis of the Gut Microbiota in the Old Order Amish and Its Relation to the Metabolic Syndrome

(2012) Margaret L. Zupancic et al.   PLoS One

Tackling the Microbiome

(2012) L. Hood   SCIENCE

Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune System

(2012) L. V. Hooper et al.   SCIENCE

Host-Gut Microbiota Metabolic Interactions

(2012) J. K. Nicholson et al.   SCIENCE

Wheat-derived arabinoxylan oligosaccharides with prebiotic effect increase satietogenic gut peptides and reduce metabolic endotoxemia in diet-induced obese mice

(2012) A M Neyrinck et al.   Nutrition & Diabetes

Energy-balance studies reveal associations between gut microbes, caloric load, and nutrient absorption in humans

(2011) Reiner Jumpertz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Pathobionts of the gastrointestinal microbiota and inflammatory disease

(2011) Janet Chow et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

Involvement of tissue bacteria in the onset of diabetes in humans: evidence for a concept

(2011) J. Amar et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Intestinal mucosal adherence and translocation of commensal bacteria at the early onset of type 2 diabetes: molecular mechanisms and probiotic treatment

(2011) Jacques Amar et al.   EMBO Molecular Medicine

Obesity and the gut microbiota: does up-regulating colonic fermentation protect against obesity and metabolic disease?

(2011) Lorenza Conterno et al.   Genes and Nutrition

Structural segregation of gut microbiota between colorectal cancer patients and healthy volunteers

(2011) Tingting Wang et al.   ISME Journal

Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease

(2011) Zeneng Wang et al.   NATURE

The intestinal microbiota and chronic disorders of the gut

(2011) Andrew W. DuPont et al.   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Effect of mother’s weight on infant’s microbiota acquisition, composition, and activity during early infancy: a prospective follow-up study initiated in early pregnancy

(2010) Maria Carmen Collado et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Propensity to high-fat diet-induced obesity in rats is associated with changes in the gut microbiota and gut inflammation

(2010) Claire Barbier de La Serre et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY

Establishment and development of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria microbiota in breast-milk and the infant gut

(2010) G. Solís et al.   ANAEROBE

Genomic Insights into Syntrophy: The Paradigm for Anaerobic Metabolic Cooperation

(2010) Jessica R. Sieber et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Gut microbiota composition is associated with body weight, weight gain and biochemical parameters in pregnant women

(2010) A. Santacruz et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Absence of intestinal microbiota does not protect mice from diet-induced obesity

(2010) Christine K. Fleissner et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Differential Adaptation of Human Gut Microbiota to Bariatric Surgery-Induced Weight Loss: Links With Metabolic and Low-Grade Inflammation Markers

(2010) J.-P. Furet et al.   DIABETES

A Marker of Endotoxemia Is Associated With Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders in Apparently Healthy Chinese

(2010) L. Sun et al.   DIABETES CARE

Germ-free C57BL/6J mice are resistant to high-fat-diet-induced insulin resistance and have altered cholesterol metabolism

(2010) Sylvie Rabot et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Composition and energy harvesting capacity of the gut microbiota: relationship to diet, obesity and time in mouse models

(2010) E F Murphy et al.   GUT

Clostridium difficile Colonization in Early Infancy Is Accompanied by Changes in Intestinal Microbiota Composition

(2010) C. Rousseau et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The endocannabinoid system links gut microbiota to adipogenesis

(2010) Giulio G Muccioli et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

Recognition of peptidoglycan from the microbiota by Nod1 enhances systemic innate immunity

(2010) Thomas B Clarke et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

High-Fat Diet: Bacteria Interactions Promote Intestinal Inflammation Which Precedes and Correlates with Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Mouse

(2010) Shengli Ding et al.   PLoS One

Metabolic Syndrome and Altered Gut Microbiota in Mice Lacking Toll-Like Receptor 5

(2010) M. Vijay-Kumar et al.   SCIENCE

Early life: gut microbiota and immune development in infancy

(2010) R. Martin et al.   Beneficial Microbes

Quantitative differences in intestinal Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in obese Indian children

(2009) Ramadass Balamurugan et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Fast UniFrac: facilitating high-throughput phylogenetic analyses of microbial communities including analysis of pyrosequencing and PhyloChip data

(2009) Micah Hamady et al.   ISME Journal

Interactions between gut microbiota, host genetics and diet relevant to development of metabolic syndromes in mice

(2009) Chenhong Zhang et al.   ISME Journal

Top-Down Systems Biology Modeling of Host Metabotype−Microbiome Associations in Obese Rodents

(2009) Alison Waldram et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Microbiota and SCFA in Lean and Overweight Healthy Subjects

(2009) Andreas Schwiertz et al.   Obesity

More than 9,000,000 Unique Genes in Human Gut Bacterial Community: Estimating Gene Numbers Inside a Human Body

(2009) Xing Yang et al.   PLoS One

Monitoring Bacterial Community of Human Gut Microbiota Reveals an Increase in Lactobacillus in Obese Patients and Methanogens in Anorexic Patients

(2009) Fabrice Armougom et al.   PLoS One

Metabolomics analysis reveals large effects of gut microflora on mammalian blood metabolites

(2009) W. R. Wikoff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human gut microbiota in obesity and after gastric bypass

(2009) H. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time

(2009) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Isolation of Bifidobacteria from Breast Milk and Assessment of the Bifidobacterial Population by PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Quantitative Real-Time PCR

(2008) R. Martin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diet-Induced Obesity Is Linked to Marked but Reversible Alterations in the Mouse Distal Gut Microbiome

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Changes in Gut Microbiota Control Metabolic Endotoxemia-Induced Inflammation in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Diabetes in Mice

(2008) P. D. Cani et al.   DIABETES

Human colonic microbiota associated with diet, obesity and weight loss

(2008) S H Duncan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

The gut–liver-axis: Endotoxemia, inflammation, insulin resistance and NASH

(2008) Jürgen Siebler et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Chylomicrons promote intestinal absorption of lipopolysaccharides

(2008) Sarbani Ghoshal et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

Progress and challenges in genome-wide association studies in humans

(2008) Peter Donnelly   NATURE

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE

Are biologists in 'future shock'? Symbiosis integrates biology across domains

(2008) Margaret McFall-Ngai   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Developmental Changes of Gut Microflora and Enzyme Activity in Rat Pups Exposed to Fat-rich Diet

(2008) Štefan Mozeš et al.   Obesity

Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic

(2008) Youfa Wang et al.   Obesity

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is an anti-inflammatory commensal bacterium identified by gut microbiota analysis of Crohn disease patients

(2008) H. Sokol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiotic gut microbes modulate human metabolic phenotypes

(2008) M. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gut microbes and obesity in adolescents

(2008) M. Sotos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY

Metabolic Syndrome in Childhood Predicts Adult Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 25 to 30 Years Later

(2007) John A. Morrison et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS