Trial reportNutrients2024
Effects of Soluble Dextrin Fiber from Potato Starch on Body Weight and Associated Gut Dysbiosis Are Evident in Western Diet-Fed Mice but Not in Overweight/Obese Children.
Trial report in Nutrients, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gut microbiome-based interventions for the management of obesity in children and adolescents aged up to 19 years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- A Regionally Inspired West Virginia Obesogenic Diet Induces Fat Accretion and Metabolic Dysfunction While Identifying Sex Disparity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Sex- and mouse strain-related differences in body weight gain, composition of the gut microbiota, and levels of selected metabolites in response to a Western-style diet.BMC gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Gut Microbiota-Metabolite Alterations Associated with Early Metabolic Dysfunction and Hepatic Steatosis in Adolescents.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026Article
- Gut microbiota-immune crosstalk in childhood and adolescent obesity: mechanistic insights and therapeutic potential focused on short-chain fatty acids and emerging metabolites.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Effects of Ultra-Processed Diets on Adiposity, Gut Barrier Integrity, Inflammation, and Microbiota in Male and Female Mice.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Western Diet and fecal microbiota transplantation alter phenotypic, liver fatty acids, and gut metagenomics and metabolomics in Mtarc2 knockout mice.Genes & nutrition · 2025Article
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry-Based Analyses of Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs): A Summary Review and Own Experience.Biomedicines · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe study investigated the impact of starch degradation products (SDexF) as prebiotics on obesity management in mice and overweight/obese children.
methodsA total of 48 mice on a normal diet (ND) and 48 on a Western diet (WD) were divided into subgroups with or without 5% SDexF supplementation for 28 weeks. In a human study, 100 overweight/obese children were randomly assigned to prebiotic and control groups, consuming fruit and vegetable mousse with or without 10 g of SDexF for 24 weeks. Stool samples were analyzed for microbiota using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and amino acids (AA) were assessed.
resultsResults showed SDexF slowed weight gain in female mice on both diets but only temporarily in males. It altered bacterial diversity and specific taxa abundances in mouse feces. In humans, SDexF did not influence weight loss or gut microbiota composition, showing minimal changes in individual taxa. The anti-obesity effect observed in mice with WD-induced obesity was not replicated in children undergoing a weight-loss program.
conclusionsSDexF exhibited sex-specific effects in mice but did not impact weight loss or microbiota composition in overweight/obese children.
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