Nutrition: High-fat diet and dysbiosis accelerate tumorigenesis in mice

摘要

In mice with a predisposition to develop intestinal cancer, dysbiosis as a result of a high-fat diet accelerates the development of intestinal tumours, reports a new study in Nature. "We were interested to see if the caloric input or constituents of a diet could alter the composition of an individual's microbiota," explains researcher Melek Canan Arkan (Technical University Munich, Germany). "If they did, could these changes be associated with disease development in the gut?"