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Keywords: 631/45/287; Animals; Atherosclerosis; Atherosclerosis - etiology; Atherosclerosis - microbiology; Atherosclerosis - physiopathology; Biomedical research; Biomedicine; Cancer Research; Cardiovascular diseases; Carnitine - chemistry; Carnitine - metabolism; Cholesterol; Cholesterol - metabolism; Choline - chemistry; Desmosterol - metabolism; Diet; Feces; Female; Genetic aspects; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Ingestion; Intestines - microbiology; Levocarnitine; Macrophages - metabolism; Mass Spectrometry; Meat; Metabolic Diseases; Metagenome; Methylamines - blood; Methylamines - metabolism; Mice; Mice, Knockout; Microbial metabolism; Microbiota (Symbiotic organisms); Molecular Medicine; Myocardial infarction; Neurosciences; Physiological aspects; Risk factors; RNA - metabolism; Taxa; Time Factors; United States