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Metformin Joins Forces with Microbes

Cabreiro F

Cell host & microbe, 2016

Abstract

The gut microbiota is a key player regulating human physiology and can adjust its structure and metabolic activity in response to host health. A recent Nature paper by Forslund et al. (2015) reveals that microbiota adaptation to metformin treatment are responsible for the drug's therapeutic effects against type 2 diabetes.

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