Imbalance in gut microbes from babies born to obese mothers increases gut permeability and myeloid cell adaptations that provoke obesity and NAFLD
December 19, 2018
This article comments on work published by Soderborg et al. (Nat Commun, 2018), which demonstrates a causative role of early life microbiome dysbiosis in infants born to mothers with obesity in novel pathways that promote developmental programming of NAFLD.
Antibiotic use in childhood alters the gut microbiota and predisposes to overweight
June 20, 2016
This article comments on work published by Korpela et al. (Nat Commun, 2016), which investigates the correlation between the use of antibiotics in early life and the excessive weight gain in later childhood.