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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2021

The potential of Akkermansia muciniphila in inflammatory bowel disease.

Ting Zhang, Xinghui Ji, Gaochen Lu, Faming Zhang

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Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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83citing papers in PubMed
13.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 195 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. The Role of Akkermansia muciniphila in Disease Regulation.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2025
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  15. Supplementation with Lentil (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ting ZhangMedical Center for Digestive Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210011, China.
Xinghui JiMedical Center for Digestive Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210011, China.
Gaochen LuMedical Center for Digestive Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210011, China.
Faming ZhangMedical Center for Digestive Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210011, China. fzhang@njmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4157-1144
Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University · CNNanjing University of Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

Graduate Research and Innovation Projects of Jiangsu Province KYCX19_1171natural science fund for colleges and universities in jiangsu province 20KJD320002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Akkermansia muciniphila is a next-generation probiotic with significant application prospects. The role of A. muciniphila in metabolic diseases and tumor immunotherapy has been widely recognized. Recent clinical trials further confirmed its safety and therapeutic value in human metabolic diseases. A. muciniphila also shows potential in the treatment of intestinal inflammatory diseases, especially for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The improvement in the efficacy of washed microbiota transplantation (WMT) in treating IBD is closely related to the increase in the abundance of A. muciniphila in patients' gut. However, there is still controversy regarding the pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory effect of A. muciniphila on IBD. Currently, several studies targeting the correlation between A. muciniphila and IBD have demonstrated opposite conclusions. Similarly, the interventional studies exploring causality between them also come to conflicting results. This article therefore aims to review the relationship between A. muciniphila and IBD, the effect of intervention of A. muciniphila on IBD, and the possible reasons for the contradictory role of A. muciniphila in the treatment of IBD. KEY POINTS: The effect of A. muciniphila on inflammatory bowel disease is controversy. A. muciniphila shows anti-inflammatory potential in IBD. The colitogenicity of A. muciniphila is context dependent.

Indexed as

ColitisInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMicrobiotaAkkermansiaHumansVerrucomicrobiaAkkermansia muciniphilaCorrelationInflammationInflammatory bowel diseasetreatment

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PMID34312713
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