Gut microbiota in health and disease: advances and future prospects

MedComm, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(12)

Published: Nov. 20, 2024

Abstract The gut microbiota plays a critical role in maintaining human health, influencing wide range of physiological processes, including immune regulation, metabolism, and neurological function. Recent studies have shown that imbalances composition can contribute to the onset progression various diseases, such as metabolic disorders (e.g., obesity diabetes) neurodegenerative conditions Alzheimer's Parkinson's). These are often accompanied by chronic inflammation dysregulated responses, which closely linked specific forms cell death, pyroptosis ferroptosis. Pathogenic bacteria trigger these death pathways through toxin release, while probiotics been found mitigate effects modulating responses. Despite insights, precise mechanisms influences diseases remain insufficiently understood. This review consolidates recent findings on impact immune‐mediated inflammation‐associated conditions. It also identifies gaps current research explores potential advanced technologies, organ‐on‐chip models microbiome–gut–organ axis, for deepening our understanding. Emerging tools, single‐bacterium omics spatial metabolomics, discussed their promise elucidating microbiota's disease development.

Language: Английский

From Inflammasomes to Pyroptosis: Molecular Mechanisms in Chronic Intestinal Diseases — Opportunity or Challenge?

Journal of Inflammation Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: Volume 18, P. 3349 - 3360

Published: March 1, 2025

Pyroptosis is a unique form of programmed cell death characterized by intense inflammation. It involves the activation Gasdermin proteins, which membrane pores, leading to rapid rupture and release inflammatory molecules. Unlike other types death, pyroptosis has distinct mechanisms plays complex role in chronic intestinal diseases, including bowel disease, fibrosis, infectious enteritis, colorectal cancer. This review comprehensively examines how influences disease development progression while exploring therapeutic potential targeting pyroptosis-related pathways. Moreover, interplay between gut microbiota summarized, highlighting its critical pathogenesis disorders. A deeper understanding these diseases may provide valuable insights for future research contribute innovative strategies gastroenterology.

Language: Английский