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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2015
Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Lee M. Kaplan, Wellesley, MA (US);
Alice P. Liou, Charlestown, MA (US);
Peter J. Turnbaugh, Somerville, MA (US);
Jason L. Harris, Mason, OH (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and compositions are provided for treating weight related conditions and metabolic disorders by altering microbiota in a subject. One aspect provides methods and compositions to alter microbiota in a subject by administering to the subject a composition that includes a substantially purified microbiota from phyla such as Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes and Verrucomicrobia or orders such as Bacteroidales, Verrucomicrobiales, Clostridiales and Enterobacteriales or genera such as, and. Another aspect includes a pharmaceutical composition for altering microbiota that includes a therapeutically effective amount of substantially purified microbiota and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Yet another aspect includes methods for treating a disorder, such as obesity, in a subject in need of such treatment by changing relative abundance of microbiota in a gastrointestinal tract of the subject without or in addition to a surgical procedure.