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Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

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Butyrate / Butyric acid & Enterocytes / Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs)

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Butyrate / Butyric acid is the main Energy source for the epithelial cells, plays an important role in brain function, and regulates cell growth and differentiation
Roediger 1980 Gut 21: 793-798
Boffa et al. 1992
Bugaut et al. 1993
Cummings 1995 In: Gibson GR, Macfarlane GT, eds. Human Colonic Bacteria: Role in Nutrition, Physiology and Pathology. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 101–30
James et al. 2003 Intern Med J 33(7):291-296
Stilling et al. 2016 Neurochem. Int. 99: 110-132

Butyrate / Butyric acid is preferred by [gut epithelium cells](brain://29P71l_ANkueEeddeY-YZg/EnterocytesIntest…

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Biological effects of short-chain fatty acids in nonruminant mammals
Bugaut et al. 1993
Dietary fibre: a roughage guide
James et al. 2003 Intern Med J 33(7):291-296
Review
Role of anaerobic bacteria in the metabolic welfare of the colonic mucosa in man
Roediger 1980 Gut 21: 793-798
Short chain fatty acids.
Cummings 1995 In: Gibson GR, Macfarlane GT, eds. Human Colonic Bacteria: Role in Nutrition, Physiology and Pathology. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 101–30.
The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis?
Stilling et al. 2016 Neurochem. Int. 99: 110-132
The Role of Butyrate in Attenuating Pathobiont-Induced Hyperinflammation
Chen & Vitetta 2020 Immune Netw. 20(2): e15
Review
Utilization of nutrients by isolated epithelial cells of the rat colon
Roediger 1982 Gastroenterology 83: 424-429

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