Short-chain fatty acids: linking diet, the microbiome and immunity

ER Mann, YK Lam, HH Uhlig - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
The short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) butyrate, propionate and acetate are microbial
metabolites and their availability in the gut and other organs is determined by environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Nutritional Criminology: Why the Emerging Research on Ultra-Processed Food Matters to Health and Justice

SL Prescott, AC Logan, CR D'Adamo… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
There is mounting concern over the potential harms associated with ultra-processed foods,
including poor mental health and antisocial behavior. Cutting-edge research provides an …

Digesting the complex metabolic effects of diet on the host and microbiome

RN Carmody, K Varady, PJ Turnbaugh - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The past 50 years of interdisciplinary research in humans and model organisms has
delivered unprecedented insights into the mechanisms through which diet affects energy …

Effects of dietary fibre on metabolic health and obesity

EC Deehan, V Mocanu, KL Madsen - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology …, 2024 - nature.com
Obesity and metabolic syndrome represent a growing epidemic worldwide. Body weight is
regulated through complex interactions between hormonal, neural and metabolic pathways …

The keystone gut species Christensenella minuta boosts gut microbial biomass and voluntary physical activity in mice

T Akbuğa-Schön, TA Suzuki, D Jakob, DL Vu… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The gut bacteria of the family Christensenellaceae are consistently associated with
metabolic health, but their role in promoting host health is not fully understood. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal variations in the gut microbial diversity in response to high-fat diet and exercise

S Imdad, B So, J Jang, J Park, SJ Lee, JH Kim… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
High-fat diet-induced obesity is a pandemic caused by an inactive lifestyle and increased
consumption of Western diets and is a major risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular …

[HTML][HTML] Lab-on-chip technologies for exploring the gut–immune axis in metabolic disease

AE Wheeler, V Stoeger, RM Owens - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The continued rise in metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus poses
a global health burden, necessitating further research into factors implicated in the onset …

[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiome remodeling and metabolomic profile improves in response to protein pacing with intermittent fasting versus continuous caloric restriction

AE Mohr, KL Sweazea, DA Bowes, P Jasbi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The gut microbiome (GM) modulates body weight/composition and gastrointestinal
functioning; therefore, approaches targeting resident gut microbes have attracted …

Gut microbiome in atypical depression

A Busch, S Roy, DL Helbing, L Colic, N Opel… - Journal of Affective …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Recent studies showed that immunometabolic dysregulation is related to
unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) and that it more consistently maps to MDD …

[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiota metabolite 3-indolepropionic acid directly activates hepatic stellate cells by ROS/JNK/p38 signaling pathways

X Yuan, J Yang, Y Huang, J Li, Y Li - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
There has been a growing interest in studying the communication of gut microbial
metabolites between the gut and the liver as liver fibrosis progresses. Although 3 …