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PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 300-307Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00023.2012
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The recent epidemic of obesity and diabetes and the diversity at the individual level could be explained by the intestinal microbiota-to-host relationship. More than four million gene products from the microbiome could interact with the immune system to induce a tissue metabolic infection, which is the molecular origin of the low-grade inflammation that characterizes the onset of obesity and diabetes.
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