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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep16643
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- FNRS [J.0084.15, 3.4579.11]
- PDR (Projet de Recherche) [T.0138.14]
- ARC (Action de Recherche Concertee-Communaut) [12/17-047]
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS for the FRFS-WELBIO [WELBIO-CR-2012S02R]
- Funds InBev-Baillet Latour
- ERC [336452-ENIGMO]
- National R + D + I (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Spain) [PI13/01604, PI13/01500]
- Instituto Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- ERDF
- Generalitat de Catalunya [SGR 659]
- Marie Curie People Cofund Fellowship
- Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission [267248]
- UB
- Miguel Servet contract (MICINN-ISCIII) [CP09/00233]
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Recent evidence indicates that the gut microbiota plays a key role in the pathophysiology of obesity. Indeed, diet-induced obesity (DIO) has been associated to substantial changes in gut microbiota composition in rodent models. In the context of obesity, enhanced adiposity is accompanied by low-grade inflammation of this tissue but the exact link with gut microbial community remains unknown. In this report, we studied the consequences of high-fat diet (HFD) administration on metabolic parameters and gut microbiota composition over different periods of time. We found that Akkermansia muciniphila abundance was strongly and negatively affected by age and HFD feeding and to a lower extend Bilophila wadsworthia was the only taxa following an opposite trend. Different approaches, including multifactorial analysis, showed that these changes in Akkermansia muciniphila were robustly correlated with the expression of lipid metabolism and inflammation markers in adipose tissue, as well as several circulating parameters (i.e., glucose, insulin, triglycerides, leptin) from DIO mice. Thus, our data shows the existence of a link between gut Akkermansia muciniphila abundance and adipose tissue homeostasis on the onset of obesity, thus reinforcing the beneficial role of this bacterium on metabolism.
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