Reduced Gut Acidity Induces an Obese-Like Phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster and in Mice

• Wei-Sheng Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Sheng Lin, Cheng-Wen Huang, You-Sheng Song

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan

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• Cheng-Wen Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Sheng Lin, Cheng-Wen Huang, You-Sheng Song

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan

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• You-Sheng Song ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Sheng Lin, Cheng-Wen Huang, You-Sheng Song

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jui-Hung Yen,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America

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• Ping-Chang Kuo,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America

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• Sheng-Rong Yeh,

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hung-Yu Lin,

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan

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• Tsai-Feng Fu,

  Affiliation Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chinan University, Nantou, Taiwan

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• Ming-Shiang Wu ,

  * E-mail: wangpeiyu@ntu.edu.tw (PYW); hdwang@life.nthu.edu.tw (HDW); mingshiang@ntu.edu.tw (MSW)

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Horng-Dar Wang ,

  * E-mail: wangpeiyu@ntu.edu.tw (PYW); hdwang@life.nthu.edu.tw (HDW); mingshiang@ntu.edu.tw (MSW)

  Affiliations Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan, Institute of Systems Neuroscience, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan

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• Pei-Yu Wang

  * E-mail: wangpeiyu@ntu.edu.tw (PYW); hdwang@life.nthu.edu.tw (HDW); mingshiang@ntu.edu.tw (MSW)

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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