MicrobiologyGut MicrobesPeer-reviewed
Clostridium innocuum, an opportunistic gut pathogen, inactivates host gut progesterone and arrests ovarian follicular development
Mei‐Jou Chen, Chia‐Hung Chou, Tsun‐Hsien Hsiao…·Yin‐Ru Chiang
This study identifies Clostridium innocuum as a gut bacterium that inactivates progesterone by converting it to epipregnanolone, leading to decreased serum progesterone and follicular arrest in mice.
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