«This is the first study to show that current strategies to bolster the effectiveness of flu vaccines
protected lean mice from serious illness but fell short of protecting obese mice from infections,» said corresponding author Stacey Schultz - Cherry, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases.
Not exact matches
Protective antibodies from
lean mice also failed to
protect obese
mice from flu infections.
In addition,
lean mice who received vaccines with adjuvants were
protected from severe flu infections.
Microbes from
lean people
protect mice from excessive weight gain, even when animals eat a high - fat, low - fiber diet.
Normally, germ - free
mice exposed to a
mouse with microbial - based obesity would themselves become obese, but we could design a microbial community taken from
lean people that
protected against this weight gain.