This review focuses on recent developments related to asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis, atopic
dermatitis (AD), eosinophilic esophagitis, and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), with a …

Opiates are among the most prescribed drugs for pain management. However, morphine
use or abuse results in significant gut bacterial translocation and predisposes patients to …

In this study, the effectors and mechanisms of Bifidobacterium bifidum FL-276.1 and B.
bifidum FL-228.1 in alleviating dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis were …

The active stages of intestinal inflammation and the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis are
associated with superficial mucosal damage and intermittent wounding that leads to …

The purpose of this paper was to explore the therapeutic effect and underlying mechanism
of Tremella fuciformis polysaccharides (TFP) on ulcerative colitis (UC) based on dextran …

Berberine is the principal component of many popular medicinal plants (eg the genus
Berberis, Coptis and Hydrastis among others) with a history of thousands of years of usage …

The gastrointestinal epithelium deploys multiple innate defense mechanisms to fight
microbial intruders, including epithelial integrity, rapid epithelial cell turnover, quick …

Carrageenan (CGN) is a high molecular weight polysaccharide extracted from red
seaweeds, composed of D-galactose residues linked in β-1, 4 and α-1, 3 galactose …

While epithelial cell culture models (eg, Caco-2 cell line) are widely used to assess the
absorption of drug molecules across healthy intestinal mucosa, there are no suitable in vitro …

Impaired gut barrier function plays an important role in the development of many diseases
such as obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, and in HIV infection. Dietary fibres have been …