Assessing the viability of transplanted gut microbiota by sequential tagging with D-amino acid-based metabolic probes
oleh: Wei Wang, Liyuan Lin, Yahui Du, Yanling Song, Xiaoman Peng, Xing Chen, Chaoyong James Yang
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2019-03-01 |
Deskripsi
The mechanisms underlying the success or failure of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) are unclear. Here, Wang et al. use a mouse model of FMT to show that fluorescent D-amino acids can be used to track the transplanted microbiota in the recipient animals.