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ArticleScientific reports2016

Fecal metabolome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers: a host-microbiome integrative view.

Silvia Turroni, Jessica Fiori, Simone Rampelli, Stephanie L Schnorr, Clarissa Consolandi, Monica Barone, Elena Biagi, Flaminia Fanelli, Marco Mezzullo, Alyssa N Crittenden and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Silvia TurroniDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy.
Jessica FioriDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy.
Simone RampelliDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy.
Stephanie L SchnorrLaboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA.
Clarissa ConsolandiInstitute of Biomedical Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Segrate, Milan 20090, Italy.
Monica BaroneDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy.
Elena BiagiDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy.
Flaminia FanelliEndocrinology Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Center for Applied Biomedical Research, University of Bologna - S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna 40138, Italy.
Marco MezzulloEndocrinology Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Center for Applied Biomedical Research, University of Bologna - S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna 40138, Italy.
Alyssa N CrittendenMetabolism, Anthropometry, and Nutrition Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003, USA.
Amanda G HenryPlant Foods in Hominin Dietary Ecology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Patrizia BrigidiDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy.
Marco CandelaDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy.
University of Bologna · ITInstitute of Biomedical Technologies · ITMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · DEPoliclinico S.Orsola-Malpighi · ITUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas · USUniversity of Oklahoma · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent characterization of the gut microbiome of traditional rural and foraging societies allowed us to appreciate the essential co-adaptive role of the microbiome in complementing our physiology, opening up significant questions on how the microbiota changes that have occurred in industrialized urban populations may have altered the microbiota-host co-metabolic network, contributing to the growing list of Western diseases. Here, we applied a targeted metabolomics approach to profile the fecal metabolome of the Hadza of Tanzania, one of the world's few remaining foraging populations, and compared them to the profiles of urban living Italians, as representative of people in the post-industrialized West. Data analysis shows that during the rainy season, when the diet is primarily plant-based, Hadza are characterized by a distinctive enrichment in hexoses, glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, and acylcarnitines, while deplete in the most common natural amino acids and derivatives. Complementary to the documented unique metagenomic features of their gut microbiome, our findings on the Hadza metabolome lend support to the notion of an alternate microbiome configuration befitting of a nomadic forager lifestyle, which helps maintain metabolic homeostasis through an overall scarcity of inflammatory factors, which are instead highly represented in the Italian metabolome.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeMetabolomeMicrobiotaAdolescentAdultAgedBiological EvolutionCluster AnalysisCohort StudiesDietEcosystemFecesHumansItalyLife StyleMetabolomics

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