Dietary Fiber with Functional Properties Counteracts the Thwarting Effects of Copper Nanoparticles on the Microbial Enzymatic Activity and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production in the... by Jerzy Juśkiewicz, Bartosz Fotschki, Anna Stępniowska, Ewelina Cholewińska, Dorota Napiórkowska, Aleksandra Marzec, Łucja Brzuzan, Joanna Fotschki, Ewa Żary-Sikorska, Katarzyna Ognik

“…In conclusion, the high potential of dietary functional fiber in reducing the suppressive effect of Cu-NP on the intestinal microbiota activity should be recognized.…”
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Identification of potent TMPRSS4 inhibitors through structural modeling and molecular dynamics simulations by Ismail Hdoufane, Mehdi Oubahmane, Youssef Habibi, Christelle Delaite, Mohammed M. Alanazi, Driss Cherqaoui

“…It has been found to activate SARS-CoV-2, enhance viral infection of human small-intestinal enterocytes and is overexpressed in different types of cancers. …”
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Anti-Inflammatory and Prebiotic Potential of Ethanol Extracts and Mucilage Polysaccharides from Korean Yams (<i>Dioscorea polystachya</i> and <i>Dioscorea bulbifera</i>) by So-Yoon Park, Van-Long Truong, Su-Gyeong Jeon, So-Young Choe, Razanamanana H. G. Rarison, Byoung-Hoon Yoon, Ji-Won Park, Hye-Jeong Jeong, Woo-Sik Jeong

“…Furthermore, the adhesion assays using Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells revealed that these polysaccharides promoted probiotic adhesion while inhibiting the adhesion of pathogenic bacteria. …”
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Effects of phosvitin phosphopeptide-Ca complex prepared by efficient enzymatic hydrolysis on calcium absorption and bone deposition of mice by Mengdie Zhao, Dong Uk Ahn, Songming Li, Wei Liu, Shengwei Yi, Xi Huang

“…The low-calcium specific pathogen free-Kunming (SPF-KM) mice were used to determine the effect of PPP-Ca complexes on intestinal calcium absorption and their utilization for bone formation. …”
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Pseudogenization of the Slc23a4 gene is necessary for the survival of Xdh-deficient mice by Kazuki Terada, Tamaki Watanabe, Nobuhiro Yasuno, Toshio Ohtsubo, Shigeru Shibata, Kimiyoshi Ichida, Makoto Hosoyamada

“…In this study, we targeted the mouse intestinal sodium-dependent nucleobase transporter (SNBT) gene (Slc23a4), which is a pseudogene in humans. …”
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Taxifolin increased semen quality of Duroc boars by improving gut microbes and blood metabolites by Yexun Zhou, Yexun Zhou, Liang Chen, Hui Han, Hui Han, Bohui Xiong, Ruqing Zhong, Yue Jiang, Lei Liu, Haiqing Sun, Jiajian Tan, Xiaowei Cheng, Martine Schroyen, Yang Gao, Yong Zhao, Hongfu Zhang

“…However, TAX reduced the “harmful” intestinal bacteria such as Prevotella, Howardella, Mogibacterium, and Enterococcus. …”
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Warming-driven migration of enterotypes mediates host health and disease statuses in ectotherm Litopenaeus vannamei by Shenzheng Zeng, Zhijian Huang, Satapornvanit Kriengkrai, Renjun Zhou, Derun Yuan, Nguyễn Văn Tuấn, Zhiming Zhu, Luwei Zheng, Qilu Hou, Xuanting Li, Qi Chen, Lingyu Zhang, Dongwei Hou, Zhixuan Deng, Shicheng Bao, Wenjun Wang, Sukontorn Khoruamkid, Soo Loon Goh, Shaoping Weng, Jianguo He

“…Pacific white shrimp, a successful model of worldwide utilizing marine ectothermic resources, is facing huge losses due to multiple diseases relevant to intestinal microbiota (IM) dysbiosis during temperature fluctuation. …”
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Age and Gender: Affecting the Positive Rates of Serum PAB and ANCA in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Qingquan Chen, Shirong Huang, Yue Wu, Shuyu Zhang, Qicai Liu, Min Chen

“…The present study is aimed at investigating the effect of age and gender on the positive rates of anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies (ASCA), anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), anti-intestinal goblet cell antibodies (GAB), and antibodies to exocrine pancreas (PAB) in IBD patients. …”
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Impact of Various Carbon Sources on the Growth Efficiency, Antioxidant Efficacy, and Immunity of Clariid Catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell 1822) by Blessing Aderonke Oguntokun, Ayomide Miracle Oyelade, Tunde Olowolafe, Omoniyi Popoola

“…Expression of the IL-1 gene in the intestines was significantly elevated in fish raised in biofloc. …”
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A Woman with a Long History of Smoking and a Debilitating Dry Cough by N. D. Potskhverashvili, N. I. Kokina, E. L. Bueverova, O. Yu. Zolnikova, A. S. Cherenda, V. A. Morozova, M. V. Feldsherov, A. P. Kiryukhin, P. V. Pavlov

“…A clinical case of colorectal cancer in a woman with a long history of tobacco smoking and extra-intestinal symptoms is presented, demonstrating the need for cancer caution in relation to patients older than 50 years with iron deficiency anemia and lymphadenopathy. …”
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Tongue Color Analysis and Diseases Detection Based on a Computer Vision System by Abdulghafor Khudhaer Abdullah, Saleem Lateef Mohammed, Ali Al-Naji, Mohammed Sameer Alsabah

“… The tongue reflects the abnormal condition and behavior of the internal organs of the body, such as problems of the heart, liver, pancreas, stomach, intestines, blood diseases and others, which lead to changes in some of the features and characteristics of the tongue. …”
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Fetal Midgut Volvulus with Meconium Peritonitis Detected on Prenatal Ultrasound by Emanuelle J. Best, Cecelia M. O’Brien, Wendy Carseldine, Aniruddh Deshpande, Rebecca Glover, Felicity Park

“…Clinically signs of fetal midgut volvulus are not pathognomonic, such as intestinal dilatation, abdominal mass, ascites, peritoneal calcifications, or polyhydramnios; thus, the diagnosis is often challenging. …”
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Thrombospondin and VEGF-R: Is There a Correlation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease? by Jaroslaw Wejman, Michal Pyzlak, Dariusz Szukiewicz, Dorota Jarosz, Wieslaw Tarnowski, Grzegorz Szewczyk

“…The purpose of our study was to evaluate the relationship between vascular density and expression of thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (VEGFR-1) in full-thickness tissue fragments of intestinal wall taken from patients after colectomy, comparing those with IBD to non-IBD control group. …”
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Amplifying Bioactivity of blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) fruit puree through Ultrasonication: Antioxidant and antiproliferative activity by Wei Wu, Xiumei Ma, Yingqi Wang, Yating Yu, Junwei Huo, Dejian Huang, Xiaonan Sui, Yan Zhang

“…Except for vanillic acid, citric acid, protocatechuic acid, and luteolin-4′-O-glucoside, the polyphenols showed a decreasing trend during oral-gastric-small intestinal-colon digestion. The U500 W ultrasonicated fruit puree exhibited the strongest antiproliferative activity. …”
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Cyclic Voltammetry and Oxidation Rate Studies of Ferrous Gluconate Complex Solutions for Preparation of Chitosan-Tripolyphosphate Microparticles by Noer Abyor Handayani, Elsa Anisa Krisanti, Sutrasno Kartohardjono, Kamarza Mulia

“…Oxidation of ferrous iron is not desirable since the intestines can only absorb iron in the ferrous form. …”
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Research progress of GLP-1RAs in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus by Xu He, Xu He, Xu He, Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao, PeiHang Li, PeiHang Li, YinJiang Zhang, YinJiang Zhang, GuoHua Li, HongYu Su, BiNan Lu, BiNan Lu, ZongRan Pang, ZongRan Pang

“…Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a 30-amino acid intestinal insulin-stimulating factor, which is mainly secreted by L cells in the distal ileum and colon. …”
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Alkylresorcinols as a New Type of Gut Microbiota Regulators Influencing Immune Therapy Efficiency in Lung Cancer Treatment by Aleksandr V. Shestopalov, Oleg I. Kit, Anastasia A. Zabolotneva, Elena Y. Zlatnik, Aleksey Yu Maksimov, Inna A. Novikova, Alexander B. Sagakyants, Sofya V. Timofeeva, Anna S. Goncharova, Anastasia V. Galina, Svetlana A. Appolonova, Pavel A. Markin, Valentin V. Makarov, Sergey M. Yudin, Anton A. Keskinov, Sergei A. Roumiantsev, Oleg I. Meshkov

“…Quantitative analysis of AR levels, as well as other microbial metabolites in blood serum and faeces, was performed using gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection; estimation of lymphocyte subsets was performed by flow cytometry; faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from lung cancer patients after ICI therapy to germ-free mice was performed to explore whether the intestinal microbiota could produce AR molecules. Results. …”
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ILC2 Proliferated by IL-33 Stimulation Alleviates Acute Colitis in Rag1-/- Mouse through Promoting M2 Macrophage Polarization by Yong You, Xiaoqing Zhang, Xiao Wang, Dan Yue, Fanxiang Meng, Junfeng Zhu, Yuanyuan Wang, Xun Sun

“…This study was to identify functions of ILC2, a newly found innate lymphoid cell which mainly locates in mucosa organs like lungs and intestines, in IBD. We injected rIL-33 protein to C57/BL6 mouse to explore how IL-33 induces ILC2 proliferation. …”
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Multiple Factors Related to the Secretion of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 by XingChun Wang, Huan Liu, Jiaqi Chen, Yan Li, Shen Qu

“…The glucagon-like peptide-1 is secreted by intestinal L cells in response to nutrient ingestion. …”
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Identification and in Vitro Digestion Characteristics of Bound Ferulic Acid in Feruloylated Arabinoxylan from Jizi439 Black Wheat Bran by LI Yiyun, LIU Zhengjia, WANG Guozhen, CHANG Xianhui, DING Wenping, CHEN Xi

“…During the in vitro digestion of the enzymatic extract, the release of ferulic acid was very low at various digestion stages (oral: (0.06 ± 0.01) μg/mg, gastric: (0.60 ± 0.02) μg/mg, intestinal: (0.14 ± 0.01) μg/mg). In addition, the enzymatic extract possessed higher antioxidant activity than the alkaline extract. …”
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