氢气与肠道菌群的关系研究进展

目前,氢气已被证实在多种疾病中具有显著的医学效应,然而其发挥效应的分子机制并不清楚。肠道菌群被人们看作人体的一个重要“器官”,与人类健康的关系密不可分。研究表明,人类肠道菌群中存在着大量能够进行氢气代谢的菌群,这些菌群的变化可能与多种疾病的发生发展密切相关。此外,研究还发现外源氢气干预可能通过重塑肠道菌群改善炎症性肠病、脂肪性肝病等。综述了肠道菌群的氢气代谢及其与疾病发生发展的关系以及外源氢气干预通过调节肠道菌群影响疾病进展的相关研究,希望能为致力于从肠道菌群角度研究氢气医学效应的科研工作者提供帮助。     

肠-肝轴与非酒精性脂肪性肝病

肠道菌群组成和数量的改变影响宿主的能量代谢、免疫应答和炎症反应状态。非酒精性脂肪性肝病患者常伴有小肠细菌过度生长或某些菌群种类和数量的改变,以及肠道黏膜通透性增加。肠道细菌通过增强肝脏脂肪合成、诱导机体胰岛素抵抗、激活天然免疫系统相关分子模式等机制,诱发肝脏炎症反应,启动纤维化进程,促进单纯性脂肪变向脂肪性肝炎发展。鉴定影响机体能量代谢和炎症反应的肠道菌群及其产物将为阐明肠-肝轴对肝脏炎症发生、发展所起的作用奠定基础,为揭示非酒精性脂肪性肝病发生、发展的机制开辟新思路,为该病的防治探索新策略。     

胆汁酸和肠道菌群相互作用对非酒精性脂肪性肝病的影响

近年来,大量研究发现胆汁酸与肠道菌群相互作用对非酒精性脂肪性肝病的发生和发展有重要影响。胆汁酸主要在肝脏中合成,分泌进入肠道后不仅可以促进脂类物质的消化和吸收,还具有重要的生理信号和代谢调节作用,其能通过参与能量代谢和炎症反应影响非酒精性脂肪性肝病的进程。肠道菌群的代谢产物(如胆汁酸、短链脂肪酸、内生性乙醇和三甲胺等)对宿主的代谢表型、免疫稳态、炎症反应和病程进展等都有重要调节作用。本文主要综述了胆汁酸的合成、转运代谢与肠道菌群结构变化之间的互相作用和对话交流机制,揭示了肠道菌群结构紊乱和胆汁酸代谢异常对非酒精性脂肪性肝病的推动作用,以期为临床上治疗非酒精性脂肪性肝病提供全新的策略和方法。     

肠道菌群与肝脏疾病相关性

肠道菌群是一个复杂的微生态系统,其种类、数量、比例、定位等要素的平衡对宿主健康产生重大影响,尤其与消化系统关系紧密。肝脏是身体内以代谢功能为主的器官,大量研究显示,肠道菌群可对酒精性肝病、非酒精性肝病、肝性脑病、肝硬化、肝癌以及自身自身免疫性肝炎等肝病的发生发展产生重要影响。本文从肠道菌群与肝脏疾病的相关性,肠道菌群影响肝脏疾病的可能机制等方面进行综述,为以肠道菌群为靶点的肝病临床治疗研究提供借鉴。     

肠道菌群在非酒精性脂肪性肝病发生发展中的生物学机制

肠道菌群是机体不可或缺的组成部分,也是维持机体内环境动态平衡的健康保证。当某些因素导致机体内外环境紊乱时,机体肠道菌群动态平衡被打破,导致机体肠道菌群紊乱,从而促进非酒精性脂肪性肝病(单纯性脂肪肝、非酒精性脂肪性肝炎、非酒精性脂肪性肝纤维化以及肝硬化)的发生及发展。肠道菌群紊乱能够影响肠道胆汁酸代谢,胆碱及其代谢产物产生,短链脂肪酸形成,肠道内源性乙醇产生,肠道通透性增加及肠道蠕动改变等多种生物学机制的改变,导致非酒精性脂肪性肝病的发病及进程。     

肠道菌群在代谢手术改善肥胖代谢性疾病中的研究进展

肥胖不仅是体内脂肪细胞的增加,而且是机体代谢状态的异常改变,导致肥胖患者出现2型糖尿病、非酒精性脂肪性肝病、心血管疾病和多囊卵巢综合征等代谢紊乱性疾病。代谢手术在减重的同时,能够治疗和缓解由肥胖导致的相关疾病。对代谢手术改善肥胖及其合并症的机制研究发现,肠道微生物在术后显著改变,这促使肠道菌群及其代谢产物（短链脂肪酸和胆汁酸）等成为代谢手术改善代谢效应机制研究的热点。随着粪菌移植和口服益生菌治疗肥胖及其合并症的报道,进一步验证了肠道菌群在改善肥胖及其相关并发症中发挥有益作用。本综述将总结肠道菌群在代谢手术领域中的最新研究进展。     

肠道菌群在慢性肝脏疾病中作用的研究进展

随着肠-肝轴机制研究的不断深入,肠道菌群与多种慢性肝脏疾病如非酒精性脂肪性肝病、酒精性肝病、肝硬化等相关性研究日益增多。肠道菌群通过肠道菌群失调、物质能量代谢改变及免疫反应激活等机制在多种肝脏疾病发生发展中发挥重要作用。本文对肠道菌群与慢性肝脏疾病关系的研究进展进行综述。     

肠道菌群与胆汁酸代谢在代谢相关脂肪性肝病的发生发展中的作用CSCD

代谢相关脂肪性肝病(metabolic-dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease,MAFLD)已成为我国慢性肝病的主要病因之一,其发病率呈逐年上升趋势。MAFLD是代谢综合征累及肝脏的表现,其发生发展与肠道菌群失调和代谢功能障碍等密切相关。由于发病机制尚不明确,目前依旧缺乏有效的药物治疗方法。肠道菌群与胆汁酸代谢密切相关,胆汁酸可靶向法尼醇X受体(farnesoid X receptor,FXR)信号通路负反馈调控肠道菌群,同时肠道菌群通过一系列复杂的生化反应影响胆汁酸代谢。大量研究发现MAFLD的免疫应答受损及全身低度慢性炎症可导致胆汁酸代谢紊乱。此外,MAFLD常伴随肠道菌群失调。本文就肠道菌群与胆汁酸代谢在MAFLD发生发展中的作用作一综述,以期探寻治疗MAFLD潜在的新的靶点。     

运动与肠道菌群的相关性

肠道菌群与人体互相依存,与机体的感染、营养、免疫及代谢密不可分,在某些疾病的预防和治疗中有着非常重要的作用。肠道菌群具有易变性,它的种类和数量是由遗传和环境因素共同决定的,环境因素主要包括宿主健康状态和生活方式等。近来发现,生活方式与代谢性疾病的发生发展密切相关,而这些代谢性疾病的发生发展都与肠道菌群的改变有关。本研究就机体不同代谢状态下肠道菌群的变化以及运动这种生活方式直接对肠道菌群的影响进行综述。     

慢性肝病发展中肠道菌群参与调控的分子机制

人体肠道内寄生着大量的肠道菌群,它们参与机体多种生命活动,其紊乱被认为与多种疾病密切相关。肝与肠道之间存在着特殊的解剖位置关系,二者相互作用,相互影响。肠道菌群通过肠-肝轴参与一系列生理病理反应,最终影响慢性肝疾病的发展。目前,有众多学者对肠道菌群在肝疾病中的作用进行了研究,但涉及其中具体的机制尚未探明。本文就肠道菌群通过参与Toll样受体(TLRs)活化加重肝纤维化;胆汁酸代谢调控非酒精性脂肪性肝病（NAFLD）;T细胞分化改善酒精性肝病（ALD);活性氧簇(ROS)生成影响肝癌(HCC)发展中的具体分子机制做一综述。     

Food additives,contaminants and other minor components: effects on human gut microbiota—a review

Gut bacteria play an important role in several metabolic processes and human diseases, such as obesity and accompanying co-morbidities, such as fatty liver disease, insulin resistance/diabetes, and cardiovascular events. Among other factors, dietary patterns, probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, antibiotics, and non-dietary factors, such as stress, age, exercise, and climatic conditions, can dramatically impact the human gut microbiota equilibrium and diversity. However, the effect of minor food constituents, including food additives and trace contaminants, on human gut microbiota has received less attention. Consequently, the present review aimed to provide an objective perspective of the current knowledge regarding the impacts of minor food constituents on human gut microbiota and consequently, on human health.     

Importance of microbial colonization of the gut in early life to the development of immunity

The mammalian gastrointestinal tract harbors a complex microbiota consisting of between 500 and 1000 distinct microbial species. Comparative studies based on the germ-free gut have provided clear evidence that the gut microbiota is instrumental in promoting the development of both the gut and systemic immune systems. Early microbial exposure of the gut is thought to dramatically reduce the incidence of inflammatory, autoimmune and atopic diseases further fuelling the scientific viewpoint, that microbial colonization plays an important role in regulating and fine-tuning the immune system throughout life. Recent molecular diversity studies have provided additional evidence that the human gut microbiota is compositionally altered in individuals suffering from inflammatory bowel disorders, suggesting that specific bacterial species are important to maintaining immunological balance and health. New and exciting insights into how gut bacteria modulate the mammalian immune system are emerging. However, much remains to be elucidated about how commensal bacteria influence the function of cells of both the innate and adaptive immune systems in health and disease.     

Minority species influences microbiota formation: the role of Bifidobacterium with extracellular glycosidases in bifidus flora formation in breastfed infant guts

The human body houses a variety of microbial ecosystems, such as the microbiotas on the skin, in the oral cavity and in the digestive tract. The gut microbiota is one such ecosystem that contains trillions of bacteria, and it is well established that it can significantly influence host health and diseases. With the advancement in bioinformatics tools, numerous comparative studies based on 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences, metabolomics, pathological and epidemical analyses have revealed the correlative relationship between the abundance of certain taxa and disease states or amount of certain causative bioactive compounds. However, the 16S rRNA-based taxonomic analyses using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology essentially detect only the majority species. Although the entire gut microbiome consists of 10¹³ microbial cells, NGS read counts are given in multiples of 10⁶, making it difficult to determine the diversity of the entire microbiota. Some recent studies have reported instances where certain minority species play a critical role in creating locally stable conditions for other species by stabilizing the fundamental microbiota, despite their low abundance. These minority species act as ‘keystone species’, which is a species whose effect on the community is disproportionately large compared to its relative abundance. One of the attributes of keystone species within the gut microbiota is its extensive enzymatic capacity for substrates that are rare or difficult to degrade for other species, such as dietary fibres or host-derived complex glycans, like human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). In this paper, we propose that more emphasis should be placed on minority taxa and their possible role as keystone species in gut microbiota studies by referring to our recent studies on HMO-mediated microbiota formation in the infant gut.     

Intestinal microbiota composition in fishes is influenced by host ecology and environment

The digestive tracts of vertebrates are colonized by complex assemblages of micro-organisms, collectively called the gut microbiota. Recent studies have revealed important contributions of gut microbiota to vertebrate health and disease, stimulating intense interest in understanding how gut microbial communities are assembled and how they impact host fitness (Sekirov et al. 2010). Although all vertebrates harbour a gut microbiota, current information on microbiota composition and function has been derived primarily from mammals. Comparisons of different mammalian species have revealed intriguing associations between gut microbiota composition and host diet, anatomy and phylogeny (Ley et al. 2008b). However, mammals constitute <10% of all vertebrate species, and it remains unclear whether similar associations exist in more diverse and ancient vertebrate lineages such as fish. In this issue, Sullam et al. (2012) make an important contribution toward identifying factors determining gut microbiota composition in fishes. The authors conducted a detailed meta-analysis of 25 bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequence libraries derived from the intestines of different fish species. To provide a broader context for their analysis, they compared these data sets to a large collection of 16S rRNA gene sequence data sets from diverse free-living and host-associated bacterial communities. Their results suggest that variation in gut microbiota composition in fishes is strongly correlated with species habitat salinity, trophic level and possibly taxonomy. Comparison of data sets from fish intestines and other environments revealed that fish gut microbiota compositions are often similar to those of other animals and contain relatively few free-living environmental bacteria. These results suggest that the gut microbiota composition of fishes is not a simple reflection of the micro-organisms in their local habitat but may result from host-specific selective pressures within the gut (Bevins & Salzman 2011).     

Application of a single‐colony coculture technique to the isolation of hitherto unculturable gut bacteria

Molecular studies have led to postulation of a relationship between gut microbiota and certain diseases. However, because studies of hitherto uncultured species in vivo are essential for characterizing the biology and pathogenic properties of gut bacteria, techniques for culturing and isolating such bacteria must be developed. Here, a technique is described that partially overcomes the obstacles that prevent detection of interbacterial communication in vitro and are thus responsible for the failure to culture certain bacterial species. For this purpose, a ring with a membrane filter at the bottom was designed and a relatively simple nutrient medium was used instead of conventional media. Gut bacteria were cocultivated in soft agar separated by the membrane filter to simulate interbacterial communication in vitro. Use of this soft agar coculture technique led to the successful isolation of hitherto uncultured bacteria and the demonstration of multistage interbacterial communication among gut bacteria in vitro. Cultivation and isolation of single colonies of bacteria that require other bacteria for growth will enhance efforts to better understand the physiological and pathogenic roles of gut microbiota.     

宿主遗传因素对肠道菌群的影响

随着高通量测序技术的发展,人们逐渐认识到肠道菌群与人类的健康和疾病密切相关,并发现肠道菌群受很多因素的影响。除了研究传统饮食和药物对肠道菌群的改变外,近年来,科学家也开始注重遗传因素在塑造肠道菌群中的作用。遗传因素可决定宿主的饮食偏好、肠道的生理结构、肠道屏障功能和免疫功能等,而这些都直接与肠道菌群相互作用,参与肠道微生态平衡的构建和稳定。因此,在研究肠道菌群与疾病发生相关性的过程中也需要考虑遗传因素的重要性。随着基因敲除、无菌小鼠和菌群移植等实验技术的革新,以及主成分分析、数量性状基因座和全基因组关联性分析等大数据分析手段的提高,科学家能够深入研究宿主遗传基因与肠道菌群之间的关联性,从而证明宿主遗传基因在塑造肠道微生态的过程中具有重要作用。本文将首先简述肠道菌群与疾病发生之间可能存在的联系,然后从多方面综述遗传因素对肠道菌群的影响及主要的研究进展,从而为今后该领域的深入研究提供重要的指导,也为今后预防和治疗疾病提供新思路和新方法。     

A future perspective on neurodegenerative diseases: nasopharyngeal and gut microbiota

Neurodegenerative diseases are considered a serious life‐threatening issue regardless of age. Resulting nerve damage progressively affects important activities, such as movement, coordination, balance, breathing, speech and the functioning of vital organs. Reports on the subject have concluded that neurodegenerative disease can be caused by mutations of susceptible genes, alcohol consumption, toxins, chemicals and other unknown environmental factors. Although several diagnostic techniques can be used to determine aetiologies, the process is difficult and often fails. Research shows that nasopharyngeal and gut microbiota play important roles in brain to spinal cord coordination. However, no conclusive epidemiologic evidence is available on the roles played by respiratory and gut microbiota in the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Thus, understanding the connection between respiratory and gut microbiota and the nervous system could provide information on causal links. The present review describes future perspectives on the role played by nasopharyngeal and gut microbiota in the development of neurodegenerative diseases.     

肠道菌群失衡与乳糜泻:重要性及可能机制

乳糜泻(Celiac disease,CeD)是基因易感人群摄入麸质后所发生的一种自身免疫性肠道疾病.越来越多证据表明,"第二人类基因组"——肠道菌群参与了CeD的发生与发展.相对于健康人群,CeD患者的肠道菌群多样性虽然增高,但有益菌减少,促炎细菌增多,并伴随菌群功能及代谢状态的改变.然而,这种菌群失衡是如何发生的,...     

肠黏膜屏障与肠道菌群的相互关系

摘要：人类肠道中微生物群与肠道环境相互作用以维持机体健康。肠黏膜屏障主要由黏液层、肠道菌群、肠道免疫系统和肠上皮细胞本身的完整性等构成。肠道作为直接与大量菌群接触的器官,其屏障功能在肠道健康中的作用尤为显著。肠道菌群与肠道屏障相互作用,保持肠道菌群与肠道屏障相对稳定,肠道菌群参与肠道免疫反应的建立,共同建立机体天然防御系统,在保持肠道免疫的动态平衡中具有重要作用。当两者之间的平衡被打破时,可诱发功能性胃肠病（如肠易激综合征）及免疫相关性疾病（如炎症性肠病）。本文主要阐述肠黏膜屏障与肠道菌群之间的相互关系以及与肠道屏障功能障碍相关的肠道疾病。