Bile acids and their receptors in metabolic disorders

S Fiorucci, E Distrutti, A Carino, A Zampella… - Progress in Lipid …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bile acids are a large family of atypical steroids which exert their functions by binding to a
family of ubiquitous cell membrane and nuclear receptors. There are two main bile acid …

Bile acids and FXR: novel targets for liver diseases

M Stofan, GL Guo - Frontiers in medicine, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bile acids (BAs) are evolutionally conserved molecules synthesized in the liver from
cholesterol and have been shown to be essential for lipid homeostasis. BAs regulate a …

Gut microbiota metabolites in NAFLD pathogenesis and therapeutic implications

J Chen, L Vitetta - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gut microbiota dysregulation plays a key role in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD) through its metabolites. Therefore, the restoration of the gut microbiota and …

FXR activation protects against NAFLD via bile-acid-dependent reductions in lipid absorption

BL Clifford, LR Sedgeman, KJ Williams, P Morand… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
FXR agonists are used to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), in part because
they reduce hepatic lipids. Here, we show that FXR activation with the FXR agonist …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of liver fibrosis: Past, current, and future

CY Zhang, S Liu, M Yang - World Journal of Hepatology, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liver fibrosis accompanies the progression of chronic liver diseases independent of
etiologies, such as hepatitis viral infection, alcohol consumption, and metabolic-associated …

Bile acid and receptors: Biology and drug discovery for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

T Jiao, Y Ma, X Guo, Y Ye, C Xie - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2022 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a series of liver metabolic disorders manifested by
lipid accumulation within hepatocytes, has become the primary cause of chronic liver …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional regulation of metabolic pathways via lipid-sensing nuclear receptors PPARs, FXR, and LXR in NASH

M Cariello, E Piccinin, A Moschetta - Cellular and molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) comprises a wide spectrum of liver
injuries from simple steatosis to steatohepatitis and cirrhosis. Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis …

Recent advances in the digestive, metabolic and therapeutic effects of farnesoid X receptor and fibroblast growth factor 19: from cholesterol to bile acid signaling

A Di Ciaula, L Bonfrate, J Baj, M Khalil, G Garruti… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bile acids (BA) are amphiphilic molecules synthesized in the liver (primary BA) starting from
cholesterol. In the small intestine, BA act as strong detergents for emulsification …

Bile acid modulators for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

S Fiorucci, M Biagioli, V Sepe, A Zampella… - Expert Opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a progressive form of nonalcoholic fatty
liver disease (NAFLD) for which therapy is suboptimal. The farnesoid-X-receptor (FXR) and …

Probiotics Alleviated Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in High‐Fat Diet‐Fed Rats via Gut Microbiota/FXR/FGF15 Signaling Pathway

M Luo, J Yan, L Wu, J Wu, Z Chen… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gut microbiota (GM) dysbiosis and bile acid (BA) metabolism disorder play an important role
in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Probiotics had a beneficial …