Influence of foods and nutrition on the gut microbiome and implications for intestinal health

P Zhang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Food components in our diet provide not only necessary nutrients to our body but also
substrates for the mutualistic microbial flora in our gastrointestinal tract, termed the gut …

Current understanding of dysbiosis in disease in human and animal models

AK DeGruttola, D Low, A Mizoguchi… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an intestinal inflammatory condition that affects more
than 2 million people in the United States. Although the etiology and pathogenesis of IBD …

Gut microbiota markers associated with obesity and overweight in Italian adults

V Palmas, S Pisanu, V Madau, E Casula, A Deledda… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In the present study, we characterized the distinctive signatures of the gut microbiota (GM)
from overweight/obese patients (OB), and normal-weight controls (NW), both of Sardinian …

The potential role of vitamin D supplementation as a gut microbiota modifier in healthy individuals

P Singh, A Rawat, M Alwakeel, E Sharif, S Al Khodor - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Vitamin D deficiency affects approximately 80% of individuals in some countries and has
been linked with gut dysbiosis and inflammation. While the benefits of vitamin D …

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 …

Modulation of inflammatory and immune responses by vitamin D

F Colotta, B Jansson, F Bonelli - Journal of autoimmunity, 2017 - Elsevier
Vitamin D (VitD) is a prohormone most noted for the regulation of calcium and phosphate
levels in circulation, and thus of bone metabolism. Inflammatory and immune cells not only …

Vitamin D modulates intestinal microbiota in inflammatory bowel diseases

C Battistini, R Ballan, ME Herkenhoff… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT),
including Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), which differ in the location and …

[HTML][HTML] Relationships between vitamin D, gut microbiome, and systemic autoimmunity

EA Yamamoto, TN Jørgensen - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing recognition of the role the microbiome plays in states of health and
disease. Microbiome studies in systemic autoimmune diseases demonstrate unique …

Diet as a trigger or therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases

JD Lewis, MT Abreu - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
The most common question asked by patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
is,“Doctor, what should I eat?” Findings from epidemiology studies have indicated that diets …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies variation in vitamin D receptor and other host factors influencing the gut microbiota

J Wang, LB Thingholm, J Skiecevičienė, P Rausch… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Human gut microbiota is an important determinant for health and disease, and recent
studies emphasize the numerous factors sha** its diversity. Here we performed a genome …