Bile acid physiology

A Di Ciaula, G Garruti, RL Baccetto… - Annals of …, 2018 - medigraphic.com
The primary bile acids (BAs) are synthetized from cholesterol in the liver, conjugated to
glycine or taurine to increase their solubility, secreted into bile, concentrated in the …

Liver steatosis, gut-liver axis, microbiome and environmental factors. A never-ending bidirectional cross-talk

A Di Ciaula, J Baj, G Garruti, G Celano… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing worldwide and
parallels comorbidities such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, and diabetes …

An update on the pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstone disease

A Di Ciaula, DQH Wang… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
An update on the pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstone disea... : Current Opinion in
Gastroenterology An update on the pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstone disease : Current …

Tuft cells—systemically dispersed sensory epithelia integrating immune and neural circuitry

CE O'Leary, C Schneider… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Tuft cells—rare solitary chemosensory cells in mucosal epithelia—are undergoing intense
scientific scrutiny fueled by recent discovery of unsuspected connections to type 2 immunity …

Persistent organic pollutants in adipose tissue should be considered in obesity research

YM Lee, KS Kim, DR Jacobs Jr, DH Lee - Obesity Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Although low doses of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), strong lipophilic chemicals with
long half‐lives, have been linked to various endocrine, immune, nervous and reproductive …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in understanding and managing cholesterol gallstones

A Di Ciaula, P Portincasa - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The high prevalence of cholesterol gallstones, the availability of new information about
pathogenesis, and the relevant health costs due to the management of cholelithiasis in both …

Free drug theory–no longer just a hypothesis?

SG Summerfield, JWT Yates, DA Fairman - Pharmaceutical research, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Free Drug Hypothesis is a well-established concept within the scientific lexicon
pervading many areas of Drug Discovery and Development, and yet it is poorly defined by …

Cysteinyl leukotrienes and acetylcholine are biliary tuft cell cotransmitters

M Keshavarz, S Faraj Tabrizi, AL Ruppert, U Pfeil… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The gallbladder stores bile between meals and empties into the duodenum upon demand
and is thereby exposed to the intestinal microbiome. This exposure raises the need for …

Bile reflux gastritis: insights into pathogenesis, relevant factors, carcinomatous risk, diagnosis, and management

X Shi, Z Chen, Y Yang, S Yan - Gastroenterology Research and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bile reflux gastritis (BRG), a kind of gastrointestinal disorder in clinical practice, is
characterized by regurgitation and inflammation. However, lack of guidelines leads to simple …

[HTML][HTML] Anatomy of rodent and human livers: What are the differences?

N Kruepunga, TBM Hakvoort, JPJM Hikspoors… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
The size of the liver of terrestrial mammals obeys the allometric scaling law over a weight
range of> 3∗ 10 6. Since scaling reflects adaptive changes in size or scale among otherwise …