How a Disturbed Gut Microbiome May Dysregulate Fat Tissue in Obesity (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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How a Disturbed Gut Microbiome May Dysregulate Fat Tissue in Obesity (2 of 2)

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The gut microbiome regulates the progression of obesity and inflammation of white fat through microRNAs expressed in adipocytes (right). In a lean state, the microbiome tightly controls these microRNAs to maintain body fat levels (left). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jun. 19, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.T. Virtue at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA; and colleagues was titled, "The gut microbiota regulates white adipose tissue inflammation and obesity via a family of microRNAs."

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[Credit: A.T. Virtue <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)]

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