Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) resulted in attenuation of high-altitude heart disease. (IMAGE)

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Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) resulted in attenuation of high-altitude heart disease.

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The FMT treatment moderately attenuated cardiac hypertrophy and spleen index in hypoxic rats, alleviated the severity of collagen deposition which was expressed as a collagen volume fraction.

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