Gut Microbiota and Complications of Liver Disease.
Gut Microbiota and Complications of Liver Disease.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.gtc.2016.09.013
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发表时间:
2017-03
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Bajaj JS
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作者:
Acharya C;Bajaj JS
The epidemic of chronic liver disease and how to combat its complications has been a challenging aspect for many years. New laboratory techniques have made analysis of the human intestinal microbiome easier and also more detailed. With insight into dysbiosis and how this dysbiosis impacts liver disease, scientists have new targets in the intestine and liver. Dysbiosis is associated with endotoxemia and propagates liver injury in NASH and alcoholic cirrhosis. The composition of the microbiota changes with the development of cirrhosis and decompensation Apart from microbes, the role that bile acids play in this arena are also being discovered and newer treatments like FXR receptor agonists are coming into the picture. Altered gut microbiota plays an important role in cirrhosis and its modulation to prevent disease progression changes, and concomitantly bile acid physiology must be regulated or augmented to help prevent cirrhosis and its complications.