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World J Mens Health. 2020 Jan;38(1):48-60. English.
Published online Mar 25, 2019.
Copyright © 2020 Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology
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Sex Differences in Gut Microbiota

Yong Sung Kim,1,2 Tatsuya Unno,3,4 Byung-Yong Kim,5 and Mi-Sung Park6
    • 1Digestive Disease Research Institute and Department of Gastroenterology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Korea.
    • 2Division of Microbiome Research, VOWLIFE R&D Center, Iksan, Korea.
    • 3Subtropical/Tropical Organism Gene Bank, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea.
    • 4Faculty of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, SARI, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea.
    • 5ChunLab, Inc., Seoul, Korea.
    • 6Institute for Metabolic Disease, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea.
Received January 14, 2019; Accepted February 16, 2019.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Changes in the gut microbiota with time and sex, and the modulatory factors involved. BMI: body mass index.

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Summary of human studies regarding sex differences in gut microbiota


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