ReviewFrontiers in immunology2023
Immunomodulatory effects of inulin and its intestinal metabolites.
Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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76 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Feeding microbes to feed the Gut: inulin reprograms intestinal epithelial metabolism and proliferation through HIF1α.Gut microbes · 2026Review
- Immunomodulatory Function of Soluble Dietary Fiber: Toward Application for Prevention and Treatment of Food Allergies.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2026Review
- Development of Functional Synbiotic-Designed Sorbets as Carriers ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Pleiotropic modulation of the gut-brain-lung axis by ketamine and its enantiomers.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Metabolic shifts driven by host-microbial interactions.The FEBS journal · 2026Review
- Inulin alleviates metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease-induced bone loss potentially by activating the Nrf2/GPX4 signaling pathway.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2026Article
- Short-Chain Fatty Acids at the Crossroads of Microbiota, Immunometabolism, and Inflammation.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Nuclear Ribosomal ITS1-5.8S rDNA-ITS2 Region as a Phylogenetic Marker forInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Fermented Foods, Functional Nutrition, and Maternal Gut Microbiota During Pregnancy: Molecular Mechanisms and the Maternal-Infant Microbiome Axis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Microbial Inulinases: Characterization, Properties, and Potential Contribution to Metabolic and Nutritional Health.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Dietary Inulin Modulates Intestinal Health and Muscle Nutritional Composition in Juvenile Silver Pomfret (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Therapeutic Potential of Polysaccharide-Modulated Gut Microbiota-Immune Axis in Gastrointestinal Cancers: Modern Insights From Traditional Pharmacy.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2026Review
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- Soybean-Derived Soluble Fiber Enhances Antimicrobial Proteins in the Mouse Small Intestine via a Tuft Cell-Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell Axis.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026Article
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- Dietary fiber in pediatric gastrointestinal health: a narrative review of evidence and challenges.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2026Review
- Role of gut microbiota metabolites in maintaining intestinal health and preventing weaning-associated diarrhea in piglets.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2026Review
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Abstract
"Dietary fiber" (DF) refers to a type of carbohydrate that cannot be digested fully. DF is not an essential nutrient, but it plays an important part in enhancing digestive capacity and maintaining intestinal health. Therefore, DF supplementation in the daily diet is highly recommended. Inulin is a soluble DF, and commonly added to foods. Recently, several studies have found that dietary supplementation of inulin can improve metabolic function and regulate intestinal immunity. Inulin is fermented in the colon by the gut microbiota and a series of metabolites is generated. Among these metabolites, short-chain fatty acids provide energy to intestinal epithelial cells and participate in regulating the differentiation of immune cells. Inulin and its intestinal metabolites contribute to host immunity. This review summarizes the effect of inulin and its metabolites on intestinal immunity, and the underlying mechanisms of inulin in preventing diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic kidney disease, and certain cancer types.
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