Microbial transformations of human bile acids

DV Guzior, RA Quinn - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Bile acids play key roles in gut metabolism, cell signaling, and microbiome composition.
While the liver is responsible for the production of primary bile acids, microbes in the gut …

High-fat, western-style diet, systemic inflammation, and gut microbiota: a narrative review

IJ Malesza, M Malesza, J Walkowiak, N Mussin… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The gut microbiota is responsible for recovering energy from food, providing hosts with
vitamins, and providing a barrier function against exogenous pathogens. In addition, it is …

The microbiota-gut-brain axis

JF Cryan, KJ O'Riordan, CSM Cowan… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
I. INTRODUCTION 1877 II. STUDYING THE... 1881 III. MICROBIOTA-GUT-BRAIN AXIS...
1907 IV. PATHWAYS OF COMMUNICATION 1911 V. MICROBIOTA AND SYNAPTIC... 1929 …

The role of bile acids in carcinogenesis

T Režen, D Rozman, T Kovács, P Kovács… - Cellular and molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Bile acids are soluble derivatives of cholesterol produced in the liver that subsequently
undergo bacterial transformation yielding a diverse array of metabolites. The bulk of bile …

A microbiota-modulated checkpoint directs immunosuppressive intestinal T cells into cancers

M Fidelle, C Rauber, C Alves Costa Silva, AL Tian… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Antibiotics (ABX) compromise the efficacy of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)
blockade in cancer patients, but the mechanisms underlying their immunosuppressive …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome-based interventions to modulate gut ecology and the immune system

TCA Hitch, LJ Hall, SK Walsh, GE Leventhal, E Slack… - Mucosal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The gut microbiome lies at the intersection between the environment and the host, with the
ability to modify host responses to disease-relevant exposures and stimuli. This is evident in …

Diversification of host bile acids by members of the gut microbiota

JA Winston, CM Theriot - Gut microbes, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Bile acid biotransformation is a collaborative effort by the host and the gut microbiome. Host
hepatocytes synthesize primary bile acids from cholesterol. Once these host-derived primary …

Secondary bile acids and short chain fatty acids in the colon: a focus on colonic microbiome, cell proliferation, inflammation, and cancer

H Zeng, S Umar, B Rust, D Lazarova… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Secondary bile acids (BAs) and short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), two major types of bacterial
metabolites in the colon, cause opposing effects on colonic inflammation at chronically high …

Bile acid signaling in inflammatory bowel diseases

S Fiorucci, A Carino, M Baldoni, L Santucci… - Digestive Diseases and …, 2021 - Springer
Bile acids are a group of chemically different steroids generated at the host/microbial
interface. Indeed, while primary bile acids are the end-product of cholesterol breakdown in …

Dihydromyricetin improves DSS-induced colitis in mice via modulation of fecal-bacteria-related bile acid metabolism

S Dong, M Zhu, K Wang, X Zhao, L Hu, W Jing… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies show that the nutraceutical supplement dihydromyricetin (DHM) can alleviate
IBD in murine models by downregulating the inflammatory pathways. However, the …