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- noun Plural form of
firmicute .
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Examples
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They found that in both man and rodent, a family of bacteria known as firmicutes were more plentiful in the obese than in the lean.
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As the year progressed and the dieting continued, the bacteroidetes numbers went up, and the firmicutes numbers went down.
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As in people, the main intestinal inhabitants of mice were bacteroidetes and firmicutes.
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Ley and co-workers examined the proportion of firmicutes and bacteroidetes in 12 people, in a study they also reported in Nature in 2006.
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In particular, fat mice tended to have more firmicutes, and fewer bacteroidetes, in their guts than lean mice.
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The firmicutes, in particular, are good at digesting our food.
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Before the diet, the subjects had more firmicutes and fewer bacteroidetes than healthy-weight people.
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Most fall into two divisions, or phyla: the bacteroidetes and the firmicutes.
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The more firmicutes in a person's intestines, the more calories they can collect from a meal.
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Healthy diets with an abundance of complex carbohydrates provide the gut with significant numbers of micro-organisms called firmicutes.
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