Characterization of TMAO productivity from carnitine challenge facilitates personalized nutrition and microbiome signatures discovery

Abstract The capability of gut microbiota in degrading foods and drugs administered orally can result in diversified efficacies and toxicity interpersonally and cause significant impact on human health. Production of atherogenic trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) from carnitine is a gut microbiota-direct...

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Main Authors: Wei-Kai Wu, Suraphan Panyod, Po-Yu Liu, Chieh-Chang Chen, Hsien-Li Kao, Hsiao-Li Chuang, Ying-Hsien Chen, Hsin-Bai Zou, Han-Chun Kuo, Ching-Hua Kuo, Ben-Yang Liao, Tina H. T. Chiu, Ching-Hu Chung, Angela Yu-Chen Lin, Yi-Chia Lee, Sen-Lin Tang, Jin-Town Wang, Yu-Wei Wu, Cheng-Chih Hsu, Lee-Yan Sheen, Alexander N. Orekhov, Ming-Shiang Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-11-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-020-00912-y