Gut microbiota diversity in obese rats treated with intermittent fasting, probiotic-fermented camel milk with or without dates and their combinations.

ABSTRACT: Dietary alternatives help effectively in obesity management. The present study examines the gut microbiota diversity in obesity-induced rats treated with intermittent fasting, fermented camel milk (FCM), and FCM-incorporated Sukkari date or their combinations. The metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiome through 16 S rRNA revealed 226 families, 499 genera, and 879 bacterial species. In the taxonomy distributions and heatmap analysis, Bacteroidota (i.e., Prevotella) had the uppermost relative abundance in groups before treatments (Before_Groups, most samples clustered in one sub-cluster) reached 80.50% in sample S11 (Before_G2), whereas Firmicutes (i.e., Lactobacillus) presented the dominant in groups after treatments (After_Groups, generality samples grouped in another sub-cluster) and c

SUBMITTER: Aljutaily T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12019252 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature