Barley β-glucan improves metabolic condition via short-chain fatty acids produced by gut microbial fermentation in high fat diet fed mice

• Junki Miyamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junki Miyamoto, Keita Watanabe

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan, AMED-CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Keita Watanabe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junki Miyamoto, Keita Watanabe

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

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• Satsuki Taira,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

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• Mayu Kasubuchi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

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• Xuan Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan, AMED-CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Junichiro Irie,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations AMED-CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Itoh,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations AMED-CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ikuo Kimura

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ikimura@cc.tuat.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan, AMED-CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8778-145X

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