Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality for
patients with type 2 diabetes, despite recent significant advances in management strategies …

The past decade has witnessed an exponential increase in the number of publications
referring to extracellular vesicles (EVs). For many years considered to be extracellular …

Both environmental and genetic factors contribute to relative species abundance and
metabolic characteristics of the intestinal microbiota. The intestinal microbiota and …

Nervonic acid, a 24-carbon fatty acid with only one double bond at the 9th carbon (C24: 1n-
9), is abundant in the human brain, liver, and kidney. It not only functions in free form but …

The intestine represents the body's largest interface between internal organs and external
environments except for its nutrient and fluid absorption functions. It has the ability to sense …

Dietary lipids are efficiently absorbed by the small intestine, incorporated into triglyceride-
rich lipoproteins (chylomicrons), and transported in the circulation to various tissues …

Dietary fat provides essential nutrients, contributes to energy balance, and regulates blood
lipid concentrations. These functions are important to health, but can also become …

Rapid and efficient digestion and absorption of dietary triglycerides and other lipids by the
intestine, the packaging of those lipids into lipoprotein chylomicron (CM) particles, and their …

Abstract Purpose of Review Although Glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 receptor agonists have
been used for almost two decades in the treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2 and, lately, in …

BACKGROUND: The gut hormone GLP-2 (glucagon-like peptide-2) plays important roles in
lipid handling in the intestine. During postabsorptive stage, it releases preformed …