Jiatai Gong, Qianjin Zhang, Ruizhi Hu, Xizi Yang, Chengkun Fang, Liping Yao, Jing Lv, Long Wang, Mingkun Shi, Wentao Zhang, Siqi Ma, Hongkun Xiang, Hongfu Zhang, De-Xing Hou, Yulong Yin, Jianhua He, Lijun Peng, Shusong Wu
Obesity is becoming a major global health problem in children that can cause diseases such as type 2 diabetes and metabolic disorders, which are closely related to the gut microbiota. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. In this study, a significant positive correlation was observed between Prevotella copri (P. copri) and obesity in children ( p = 0.003). Next, the effect of P. copri on obesity was explored by using fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) experiment. Transplantation of P...
2024: Gut Microbes