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August 12, 2025Physiology & BehaviorOpen Access

Both obesogenic and isocalorically-controlled diets drive changes in microbiota composition in a sex-dependent manner in mice

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ALAshley M. LoevenABAmber N. BrownFEFrancis Ushie Ebuara

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Isocaloric and obesogenic diets affect gut microbiota diversity in mice, suggesting different pathways to obesity.

Key Points

  • Differential modulation of gut microbiota composition is linked to dietary fat and isocaloric intake.
  • Alpha diversity decreased in both diet groups after 5 months, indicating microbiome changes due to dietary fat.
  • The study utilized 16s V4 sequencing to assess microbiome composition over a 5-month period in mice.
  • These findings highlight how dietary fat consumption may influence obesity through microbiota alterations.

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Loeven et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23595b210217d6477148dhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115062
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