Butyrate-Producing Probiotics Reduce Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Progression in Rats: New Insight into the Probiotics for the Gut-Liver Axis

• Hitoshi Endo ,

  * E-mail: h-endo@tokai-u.jp (HE); tewatana@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (TW)

  Affiliation Center for Molecular Prevention and Environmental Medicine, Department of Community Health, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

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• Maki Niioka,

  Affiliation Teaching and Research Support Center, Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

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• Noriko Kobayashi,

  Affiliation Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co. Research Laboratory, Nagano, Japan

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• Mamoru Tanaka,

  Affiliation Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co. Research Laboratory, Nagano, Japan

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• Tetsu Watanabe

  * E-mail: h-endo@tokai-u.jp (HE); tewatana@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (TW)

  Affiliation Center for Molecular Prevention and Environmental Medicine, Department of Community Health, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

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