That research showed that mice on a normal diet who were exposed to low doses of antibiotics throughout life, similar to what occurs in commercial livestock, packed on 10 to 15 percent more
fat than untreated mice and had a markedly altered metabolism in their liver.
The treated mice also grew
fatter than the untreated mice when both were fed a high - fat diet.
Not exact matches
The researchers discovered that
mice inoculated with bacteria from the antibiotic - treated donors were indeed
fatter than the germ - free
mice inoculated with bacteria from
untreated donors.
Our findings are in agreement with a recently published study by Oskarsson et al. (2015) in which Tg
mice injected through the tail vein with in vitro — generated aggregates from synthetic peptides containing the sequence of IAPP developed a higher percentage of IAPP aggregates in the pancreas
than did
untreated controls when subjected to a high -
fat diet.
The first study, published in the journal Nature6, found that young
mice treated with low doses of common antibiotics gained 10 - 15 percent more
fat than the
untreated controls.