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Willem M de Vos

Professor @ Microbiology Wageningen Netherlands @Helsinki Finland
Verified email at wur.nl
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Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

…, J Wang, F Guarner, O Pedersen, WM De Vos… - nature, 2011 - nature.com
Our knowledge of species and functional composition of the human gut microbiome is rapidly
increasing, but it is still based on very few cohorts and little is known about variation across …

[HTML][HTML] Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium difficile

…, S Fuentes, EG Zoetendal, WM de Vos… - … England Journal of …, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection is difficult to treat, and failure rates for
antibiotic therapy are high. We studied the effect of duodenal infusion of donor feces in …

Cross-talk between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesity

…, NM Delzenne, WM De Vos… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are characterized by altered gut microbiota, inflammation, and
gut barrier disruption. Microbial composition and the mechanisms of interaction with the host …

[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiome and health: mechanistic insights

WM De Vos, H Tilg, M Van Hul, PD Cani - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
The gut microbiota is now considered as one of the key elements contributing to the regulation
of host health. Virtually all our body sites are colonised by microbes suggesting different …

Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

…, P Renault, T Sicheritz-Ponten, WM De Vos… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
We are facing a global metabolic health crisis provoked by an obesity epidemic. Here we
report the human gut microbial composition in a population sample of 123 non-obese and 169 …

Transfer of intestinal microbiota from lean donors increases insulin sensitivity in individuals with metabolic syndrome

…, ES Stroes, WM de Vos, JBL Hoekstra, M Nieuwdorp - Gastroenterology, 2012 - Elsevier
Alterations in intestinal microbiota are associated with obesity and insulin resistance. We
studied the effects of infusing intestinal microbiota from lean donors to male recipients with …

Complete genome sequence of Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1

…, M de Vries, B Ursing, WM de Vos… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
The 3,308,274-bp sequence of the chromosome of Lactobacillus plantarum strain WCFS1,
a single colony isolate of strain NCIMB8826 that was originally isolated from human saliva, …

Akkermansia muciniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a human intestinal mucin-degrading bacterium

…, CM Plugge, WM de Vos - … of systematic and …, 2004 - microbiologyresearch.org
The diversity of mucin-degrading bacteria in the human intestine was investigated by
combining culture and 16S rRNA-dependent approaches. A dominant bacterium, strain Muc T , …

Temperature gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of 16S rRNA from human fecal samples reveals stable and host-specific communities of active bacteria

…, ADL Akkermans, WM De Vos - Applied and …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Three grams (wet weight) of fecal samples was homogenized in 50 ml of ice-cold 0.05 M
potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), and aliquots of 1 ml were stored at −20… Willem M. De Vos

A purified membrane protein from Akkermansia muciniphila or the pasteurized bacterium improves metabolism in obese and diabetic mice

…, MP Hermans, JP Thissen, C Belzer, WM de Vos… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are associated with low-grade inflammation and specific
changes in gut microbiota composition 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . We previously demonstrated that …