European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical MicrobiologyDec 13, 2019

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: the role of gut bacteria and bacteria-based treatments

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Abstract

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by lipid accumulation in liver cells and inflammation.

NAFLD is associated with genetic factors, metabolic functions, inflammation, gut microbiota, and environmental influences.
Dysregulation of gut microbiota may correlate with the development of NAFLD.
Advanced microbial profiling methods are revealing changes in gut microbiota related to NAFLD and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Prebiotics, probiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) are explored as potential therapeutic options for NAFLD.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the well-known disease of the liver in adults and children throughout the world. The main manifestations related to NAFLD are an unusual storage of lipid in hepatocytes (hepatic steatosis) and progression of inflammation for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). NAFLD is described as a multifactorial complication due to the genetic predisposition, metabolic functions, inflammatory, gut microbiota (GM), and environmental factors. The GM dysregulation among these factors is correlated to NAFLD development. In recent decades, advanced microbial profiling methods are continuing to shed light on the nature of the changes in the GM caused by NASH and NAFLD. In the current review, we aim to perform a literature review in different library databases and electronic searches (Science Direct, PubMed, and Google Scholar) which were randomly obtained. This will be done in order to provide an overview of the relation between GM and NAFLD, and the role of prebiotics, probiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), as potential therapeutic challenges for NAFLD.

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