Chlamydia trachomatis, an intracellular pathogen, is recognized as the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection among women worldwide. Chlamydia infections can lead to undesirable clinical outcomes, including pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility. Recently, the gut has been...
Although Toxoplasma gondii has been recognized as an obligate intracellular parasite, the lipid metabolic alterations it induces in colonic contents during acute infection remain poorly characterized. This study generated an acute infection model using C57BL/6J mice by oral inoculation with the T...
Rapid, deep, and sustained systemic ketosis was achieved using an orally administered ketone ester (KE: 3.0 mg/g body weight of (R)-3-hydroxybutyl (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate; DeltaG® Ketone Ester, TΔS® Ltd, Oxfordshire, UK) compared with control (0.9% NaCl) prior to permanent middle cerebral artery oc...