Endocrine Abstracts

Experimental data in animals, but also observational studies in patients, suggest that dysbiosis, meaning changes in the composition and/or of the metabolic activity of the gut microbiota, occurs upon the development of obesity and related metabolic diseases In this presentation, we will evaluate the rationale to propose prebiotic approach (consisting in the administration of dietary fermentable carbohydrates able to change the gut microbiota composition or function) in the ma...