Interacción entre la microbiota intestinal y la obesidad: efectos terapéuticos de la inulina como prebiótico.

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Confidenciality: No

Education area(s): Nutrició i Metabolisme

APS: No

Title in different languages: Interaction between gut microbiota and obesity: therapeutic effects of inulin as a prebiotic.

Abstract: The objective of this review was to explore the association between the intestinal microbiota and obesity and to investigate the role of inulin in the treatment of this disease. People with obesity have shown alterations in the composition of the intestinal microbiota, which is known as dysbiosis. As a consequence, the normal functions of the microbiota are altered and the host's metabolism could function incorrectly. Inulin is a polysaccharide that can be fermented by commensal bacteria and, at the same time, can modulate the composition of the intestinal microbiota. This review has shown that inulin supplementation increases the abundance of Bifidobacterium in subjects with obesity.

Subject: Nutrició

Academic year: 2022-2023

Language: spa

Work's public defense date: 2023-06-22

Subject areas: Health sciences

Student: Bohigas Aranda, Mònica

Department: Medicina i Cirurgia

Creation date in repository: 2024-04-19

Keywords: Gut microbiota, obesity, inulin

Title in original language: Interacción entre la microbiota intestinal y la obesidad: efectos terapéuticos de la inulina como prebiótico.

Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Project director: Mulero Abellán, Miguel