Endocrine Abstracts

The distal gut harbours microbial communities that outnumber our own eukaryotic cells. Over the last 15 years, our work has been devoted to examine the way by which gut microbiota interacts with nutrients and host physiology. We and others have suggested that cross-talks between gut microbiota and the host cells contribute to the regulation of energy, glucose and lipid homeostasis.We described the concept of metabolic endotoxemia (increase in plasma LPS ...