Bile acid metabolism and signaling, the microbiota, and metabolic disease

J Cai, B Rimal, C Jiang, JYL Chiang… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The diversity, composition, and function of the bacterial community inhabiting the human
gastrointestinal tract contributes to host health through its role in producing energy or …

Breaking the barriers: The role of gut homeostasis in Metabolic-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)

R Benedé-Ubieto, FJ Cubero, YA Nevzorova - Gut Microbes, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Obesity, insulin resistance (IR), and the gut microbiome intricately interplay in
Metabolic-associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), previously known as Non-Alcoholic …

Engineered human hepatocyte organoids enable CRISPR-based target discovery and drug screening for steatosis

D Hendriks, JF Brouwers, K Hamer, MH Geurts… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The lack of registered drugs for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is partly due to the
paucity of human-relevant models for target discovery and compound screening. Here we …

Gut microbiota alters host bile acid metabolism to contribute to intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy

B Tang, L Tang, S Li, S Liu, J He, P Li, S Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a female pregnancy-specific disorder that is
characterized by increased serum bile acid and adverse fetal outcomes. The aetiology and …

Bile acid signaling in the regulation of whole body metabolic and immunological homeostasis

W Jia, Y Li, KCP Cheung, X Zheng - Science China Life Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Bile acids (BAs) play a crucial role in nutrient absorption and act as key regulators of lipid
and glucose metabolism and immune homeostasis. Through the enterohepatic circulation …

Crosstalk between oxidative stress and inflammatory liver injury in the pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease

YM Yang, YE Cho, S Hwang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is characterized by the injury, inflammation, and scarring in the
liver owing to excessive alcohol consumption. Currently, ALD is a leading cause for liver …

Gut commensal Christensenella minuta modulates host metabolism via acylated secondary bile acids

C Liu, MX Du, LS **e, WZ Wang, BS Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A strong correlation between gut microbes and host health has been observed in numerous
gut metagenomic cohort studies. However, the underlying mechanisms governing host …

NAFLD and NASH: etiology, targets and emerging therapies

S Wei, L Wang, PC Evans, S Xu - Drug discovery today, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) pose a
significant threat to human health and cause a tremendous socioeconomic burden …

Gut microbiota-bile acid crosstalk regulates murine lipid metabolism via the intestinal FXR-FGF19 axis in diet-induced humanized dyslipidemia

H Xu, F Fang, K Wu, J Song, Y Li, X Lu, J Liu, L Zhou… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Diet-induced dyslipidemia is linked to the gut microbiota, but the causality of
microbiota-host interaction affecting lipid metabolism remains controversial. Here, the …

FXR agonists for MASH therapy: lessons and perspectives from obeticholic acid

K Wang, Y Zhang, G Wang, H Hao… - Medicinal Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, also called metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver
disease, is the most common liver disease worldwide and has no approved …