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Urinary TMAO Levels Are Associated with the Taxonomic Composition of the Gut Microbiota and with the Choline TMA-Lyase Gene (cutC) Harbored by Enterobacteriaceae

Gut microbiota metabolization of dietary choline may promote atherosclerosis through trimethylamine (TMA), which is rapidly absorbed and converted in the liver to proatherogenic trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO). The aim of this study was to verify whether TMAO urinary levels may be associated with the...

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Autores principales: Dalla Via, Alessandro, Gargari, Giorgio, Taverniti, Valentina, Rondini, Greta, Velardi, Ilaria, Gambaro, Veniero, Visconti, Giacomo Luca, De Vitis, Valerio, Gardana, Claudio, Ragg, Enzio, Pinto, Andrea, Riso, Patrizia, Guglielmetti, Simone
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31881690
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12010062