Bariatric Surgery Durably Alters the Human Gut Microbiome (IMAGE)

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Bariatric Surgery Durably Alters the Human Gut Microbiome

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This visual abstract depicts how two types of bariatric surgery, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and vertical banded gastroplasty, produce long-term alterations of the gut microbiome independently of BMI and that these alterations modulate host metabolism and fat mass deposition.

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Tremaroli and Karlsson et al./<i>Cell Metabolism</i> 2015

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