Research Article Details
Article ID: | A07978 |
PMID: | 32291578 |
Source: | Indian J Gastroenterol |
Title: | Gut microbiota abnormalities, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: An emerging paradigm. |
Abstract: | Evidence accumulates to implicate a role for the gut microbiota in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-a disorder that has reached almost epidemic proportions around the globe. For some time a disturbance in the gut microbiome, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), has been described among patients with liver disease, in general, and in the development and progression of NAFLD to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), decompensated liver disease and hepatocellular cancer (HCC), in particular. More recently and permitted by the advent of high-throughput sequencing and allied molecular techniques, a much more detailed analysis of gut microbiota in NAFLD and NASH has become possible. In animal models, several mechanisms have been delineated which reveal how gut bacteria and their products could promote steatosis, hepatic inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and carcinogenesis. For understandable reasons evidence from human studies is less complete, but here again a plausible case is beginning to emerge to incriminate microbiota in NAFLD and NASH pathogenesis. Therapeutic interventions based on the modulation of the microbiome have been explored to some extent, but their application to everyday medical practice is still in the future. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s12664-020-01027-w |

Strategy ID | Therapy Strategy | Synonyms | Therapy Targets | Therapy Drugs | |
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S03 | Anti-fibrosis | fibrosis | Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (ARB); CCR2/CCR5 antagonist; Thyroid receptor β agonist; PEGylated human FGF21 analogue; Monoclonal antibody to lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2); Galectin-3 inhibitor; FGF19 variant | Losartan; Cenicriviroc; VK-2809; MGL-3196; Pegbelfermin; Simtuzumab; GR-MD-02; NGM282 | Details |
S06 | Regulating intestinal flora | intestine gut microbiota; gut microbiota | farnesoid X receptor (FXR); fibroblast growth factor-19 (FGF19) | Probiotics; Prebiotics; Rifaximin; Yaq-001; Cilofexor; EDP-305; EYP001a; INT-767 | Details |
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I14 | 9970 | Obesity | An overnutrition that is characterized by excess body fat, traditionally defined as an elevated ratio of weight to height (specifically 30 kilograms per meter squared), has_material_basis_in a multifactorial etiology related to excess nutrition intake, decreased caloric utilization, and genetic susceptibility, and possibly medications and certain disorders of metabolism, endocrine function, and mental illness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity | disease of metabolism/acquired metabolic disease/ nutrition disease/overnutrition | Details |
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