Gut dysbiosis and systemic inflammation promote cardiomyocyte abnormalities in an experimental model of steatohepatitis
    
    
        Larisse Longo, Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto, Eduardo Filippi-Chiela, Valessa Emanoele Gabriel de Souza, Fernando Salvati, Carlos Thadeu Cerski, Themis Reverbel da Silveira, Cláudia P Oliveira, Carolina Uribe-Cruz, Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva
    
    
        Larisse Longo, Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto, Valessa Emanoele Gabriel de Souza, Themis Reverbel da Silveira, Carolina Uribe-Cruz, Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, Experimental Laboratory of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Larisse Longo, Eduardo Filippi-Chiela, Carlos Thadeu Cerski, Carolina Uribe-Cruz, Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, Graduate Program in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90035-003, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto, Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Eduardo Filippi-Chiela, Center of Biotechnology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 91501-970, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Eduardo Filippi-Chiela, Department of Morphological Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulPorto Alegre 90050-170, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Eduardo Filippi-Chiela, Experimental Research Center, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Fernando Salvati, School of Medicine, Instituto Meridional de Educação-IMED, Passo Fundo 99070-220, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Carlos Thadeu Cerski, Unit of Surgical Pathology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Cláudia P Oliveira, Department of Gastroenterology (LIM07), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 01246903, Brazil
Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, Division of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
     
    
        Author contributions:  Longo L, Rampelotto PH, Filippi-Chiela E and Álvares-da-Silva MR performed the conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing of the original draft, writing-review, and editing; de Souza VEG, Salvati F, and Cerski CT performed the conceptualization, methodology, and formal analysis; da Silveira TR, Oliveira CP and Uribe-Cruz C contributed to the conceptualization, data curation writing the original draft, writing-review and editing.
Institutional review board statement:  IRB approval was obtained for this study from the Grupo de Pesquisa em Pós-Graduação – Comissão de Ética em Uso Animal do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre.
Institutional animal care and use committee statement:  All experimental procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee for the Use of Animals (No. 17-0021 and No. 17-0531) in accordance with international guidelines for animal welfare and measures were taken to minimize animal pain and discomfort.
Conflict-of-interest statement:  The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Data sharing statement:  If requested and after approval, the authors authorize data sharing.
ARRIVE guidelines statement:  The authors have read the ARRIVE guidelines, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the ARRIVE guidelines.
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http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author:  Larisse Longo, PhD, Postdoc, Experimental Laboratory of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2350/Sala 12214, 2° Andar, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 
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Received: April 1, 2021
Peer-review started:  April 1, 2021
First decision:  July 16, 2021
Revised: July 20, 2021
Accepted: October 18, 2021
Article in press:  October 18, 2021
Published online: December 27, 2021
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