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Transplanting gut microbes from an obesity-resistant shrew can improve microbiome diversity and decrease the weight of obese mice

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Transplanting gut microbes from an obesity-resistant shrew can improve microbiome diversity and decrease the weight of obese mice
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Transplanting gut microbes from an obesity-resistant shrew can improve microbiome diversity and decrease the weight of obese mice

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293213

Article Title: Gut microbiota of Suncus murinus, a naturally obesity-resistant animal, improves the ecological diversity of the gut microbiota in high-fat-diet-induced obese mice

Author Countries: Japan, China

Funding: This work (PONE-D-23-21281) was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (Nos. 19K07271). However, the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. None of the authors received a salary from this grant

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