WP 2.2 Animal model causality testing: Stool transplantation

Objective: To show that by transplanting AN patients’ stool microbiome into rats, induction of weight loss in the activity based anorexia animal model is facilitated and gut permeability, inflammation and weight loss increase.

Team:

Professor R. Adan (PI)
Department Translational Neuroscience,
University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Karlijn Kooij
Department Translational Neuroscience,
University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.