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. 2021 Sep 14;12(6):1393–1407. doi: 10.1002/jcsm.12784

Table 2.

The abundance of gut bacteria correlated with muscle mass

Study	Bacteria positively associated with muscle mass gain, or abundant in higher muscle mass rodents/human	Bacteria negatively associated with muscle mass gain, or abundant in lower muscle mass rodents/human
Castro‐Mejía et al. 2020 ⁶¹	Bifidobacterium adolescentis, Christensenella	Enterobacterales
Castellanos et al. 2020 ⁶²	Coprococcus, Blautia, Eubacterium	Unclassified Bacteroides, Parabacteroides
Chen et al. 2020 ⁵²	Firmicutes, Lactobacillaceae, Lactobacillus, Proteobacteria	Bacteroidetes, Clostridiales, Allobaculum
Picca et al. 2020 ⁶⁰	Barnesiellaceae, Christensenellaceae, Slackia, Eubacterium	Oscillospira, Ruminococcus, Peptostreptococcaceae, Bifidobacteriaceae, Dialister, Pyramidobacter, Eggerthella
Chen et al. 2019 ⁴⁷	Lactobacillus paracasei PS23 ^a	/
Okamoto et al. 2019 ⁵⁸	Bacteroidetes, Prevotella, S24–7	Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Lactococcus, Allobaculum
Huang et al. 2019 ⁶⁷	Lactobacillus plantarum TWK10 ^a	/
Ni et al. 2019 ³²	Lactobacillus casei LC122 ^a , Bifidobacterium longum BL986 ^a , Epsilonbacteraeota, Actinobacteria, Spirochaetes, Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus	Verrucomicrobia, Epsilonbacteraeota, Muribaculum, Parasutterella
Hsu et al. 2018 ⁵³	Lactobacillus fermentum DSM 32784 (LF26) ^a , L. helveticus DSM 32787 (LH43) ^a , L. paracasei DSM 32785 (LPC12) ^a , L. rhamnosus DSM 32786 (LRH10) ^a , Streptococcus thermophilus DSM 32788 (ST30) ^a , Bacteroidetes, Bacteroidales, Bacteroidia, Ruminococcaceae, Clostridia, Clostridiales, Rikenellaceae	Firmicutes
Manickam et al. 2018 ⁵⁷	/	Proteobacteria, Erysipelotrichales
Bressa et al. 2017 ⁶³	Bifidobacterium, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, Roseburia hominis, Akkermansia muciniphila, Faecalibacterium, Coprococcus, Lachnospiraceae unclassified 1, Ruminococcae unclassified 1	Barnesiellaceae, Odoribacteraceae, Ruminococcus
Siddharth et al. 2017 ⁴³	Lachnospiraceae insertae sedis, Lachnobacterium, Barnesiella	Thermotalea, Sutterella
Chen et al. 2016 ⁴⁸	Lactobacillus plantarum TWK10 ^a	/
Blanton et al. 2016 ³⁷	Faecalibacterium prausnitzii ^a , Clostridium nexile ^a , Clostridium symbiosum ^a , Ruminococcus gnavus ^a , Dorea formicigenerans ^a	Clostridium neonatale, Enterococcus species
Yan et al. 2016 ³⁸	Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Prevotella	Firmicutes, Fusobacteria, Actinobacteria, Roseburia, Ruminococcus, Blautia
Hsu et al. 2015 ³⁵	Bacteroides fragilis ^a	/

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The effects of bacteria on muscle mass that had been proven in interventional studies.