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ArticleNutrients2025

Microencapsulated Propionate and Butyrate Improved Energy Balance and Gut Microbiota Composition in Diet-Induced Obese Rats.

Souvik Patra, Prasanth K Chelikani

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Article in Nutrients, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reframing obesity through the gut microbiota: functional dysbiosis and metabolic disease.Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care · 2026
    Review
  2. [Research progress on the effects of maternal gut microbiota in gestational obesity on offspring and potential mechanisms].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2026
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Microorganisms · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Souvik PatraSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Texas Tech University, 7671 Evans Drive, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA.
Prasanth K ChelikaniSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Texas Tech University, 7671 Evans Drive, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7300-2918

Funding

American Heart Association 953881Diabetes Research and Action Education Foundation 523
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), particularly propionate and butyrate, reduce food intake, body weight, and modulate gut microbiota composition. However, it is unclear whether encapsulation of propionate and butyrate enhances their delivery to distal gut to improve energy balance and gut microbiota composition in obesity.

Indexed as

ButyratesEnergy MetabolismGastrointestinal MicrobiomeObesityPropionatesAnimalsBody CompositionDiet, High-FatDrug CompoundingEnergy IntakeFecesMaleRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyButyratesPropionatesenergy balancegut microbiotametabolomemicroencapsulated short chain fatty acids

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PMID40647300
PMCPMC12251328

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