ReviewBiomolecules2021
Understanding the Role of the Gut Microbiome and Microbial Metabolites in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Current Evidence and Perspectives.
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167 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 265 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gut microbiota composition in responders vs. non-responders with hepatocellular carcinoma under ICI therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of Probiotics on Liver Enzymes in Patients With Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: An Umbrella of Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of the Mediterranean Diet Containing Different Macronutrients on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.Nutrients · 2024Trial
- Global publication trends and research hotspots of the gut-liver axis in NAFLD: A bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Trial
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- Ginsenoside F1 ameliorates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by activating the AMPK/PGC-1α pathway and autophagy.In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal · 2026Article
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- The Effect of Zinc Gluconate Supplementation on the Intestinal Microbiota and Growth Performance of Yorkshire Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- The Gut-Liver Axis in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD): Mechanisms, Microbiome Interactions and Therapeutic Targets.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- The gut-liver/bile axis: Gut microbiota and bacterial extracellular vesicles remodeling hepatobiliary pathogenesis.iScience · 2026Review
- Altered microbial cargo in fecal microbiome-derived outer membrane vesicles as novel biomarkers for vascular dementia.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- The role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the management of liver disease: targeting gut microbiome.Chinese medicine · 2026Review
- Tea Polysaccharides Ameliorates Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice via Regulating Macrophages Polarization by Gut Microbial Metabolites.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Article
- Cross-organ multi-omics profiling of microbiome and metabolome along the gut-liver axis in MASH model mice induced by western diet and MC4R knockout.Gut pathogens · 2026Article
- Clinically distinct metabotypes of pediatric MASLD identified through unsupervised clustering of NASH CRN data.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Interleukin-18 binding protein deficiency results in gut microbiota dysbiosis and aggravated diet-induced MASH in mice.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2026Article
- Anti-inflammatory and Anti-apoptotic Effects of Hypericum Japonicum and its Active Compounds in Hepatic Fibrosis.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2026Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. NAFLD begins as a relatively benign hepatic steatosis which can evolve to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); the risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) increases when fibrosis is present. NAFLD represents a complex process implicating numerous factors-genetic, metabolic, and dietary-intertwined in a multi-hit etiopathogenetic model. Recent data have highlighted the role of gut dysbiosis, which may render the bowel more permeable, leading to increased free fatty acid absorption, bacterial migration, and a parallel release of toxic bacterial products, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and proinflammatory cytokines that initiate and sustain inflammation. Although gut dysbiosis is present in each disease stage, there is currently no single microbial signature to distinguish or predict which patients will evolve from NAFLD to NASH and HCC. Using 16S rRNA sequencing, the majority of patients with NAFLD/NASH exhibit increased numbers of Bacteroidetes and differences in the presence of Firmicutes, resulting in a decreased F/B ratio in most studies. They also present an increased proportion of species belonging to
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