Mouse Obesity Study Data on Gut Microbiota and Metabolite Changes

A figshare dataset by Qiang Fu, last updated March 18, 2026, containing results from a 17-week study on C57BL/6J mice. The data likely includes obesity-related parameters, gut microbiota profiles, and serum metabolomics to investigate the effects of Portulaca oleracea polysaccharide on high-fat diet-induced obesity. The dataset is small, at 21.5 KB, and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train models to predict obesity-related indices based on gut microbiota diversity metrics mentioned in the description
• Analyze correlations between specific metabolites like LacCer (d18:1/12:0) and host metabolic parameters
• Study the effects of dietary polysaccharides on the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio in a controlled animal model

Strengths

• Data is from a controlled 17-week animal study with a defined intervention (3.2% POP supplement)
• Analysis includes multiple data types: obesity parameters, gut microbiota, and serum metabolomics
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse

Limitations

• Dataset is very small (21.5 KB), indicating limited scope or summary-level data
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Qiang Fu

Collection Method

Data collected from a laboratory experiment where C57BL/6J mice were fed a high-fat diet with a polysaccharide supplement for 17 weeks.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:38:45