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. 2021 Apr 29;8:671353. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.671353

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Schematic diagram of the mechanism of MSG-induced abdominal obesity. Our study demonstrated that MSG could cause gut microbiota dysbiosis, leading to up-regulation of RetSat in the liver tissue and neuronal damage in the brain to induce abdominal obesity, which could be ameliorated after quercetin treatment.