Diabetes and obesity are two metabolic diseases characterized by insulin resistance and a low-grade inflammation. Seeking an inflammatory factor causative of the onset of insulin resistance ...
LPS infusion in normal diet-fed mice causes a metabolic response similar, to some extent, to high-fat feeding. LPS receptor-deleted mice (i.e., CD14 mutants) are hypersensitive to insulin ...
tulane.edu Objective Alterations in gut microbiota have been linked to host insulin resistance, diabetes and impaired amino acid metabolism. We investigated whether changes in gut microbiota-dependent ...