Relations of gut liver axis components and gut microbiota in obese children with fatty liver: A pilot study

Luca Pierri; Pasquale Saggese; Salvatore Guercio Nuzio; Jacopo Troisi; Martina Di Stasi; Marco Poeta; Riccardo Savastano; Giovanna Marchese; Roberta Tarallo; Grazia Massa; Vincenzo Ciccone; Doreen Ziegenhardt; Pierpaolo Cavallo; Ina Bergheim; Alessandro Weisz; Pietro Vajro

doi:10.1016/j.clinre.2018.03.015

Relations of gut liver axis components and gut microbiota in obese children with fatty liver: A pilot study

Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol. 2018 Sep;42(4):387-390. doi: 10.1016/j.clinre.2018.03.015. Epub 2018 Jul 10.

Authors

Luca Pierri¹, Pasquale Saggese², Salvatore Guercio Nuzio³, Jacopo Troisi⁴, Martina Di Stasi³, Marco Poeta³, Riccardo Savastano⁵, Giovanna Marchese⁶, Roberta Tarallo², Grazia Massa³, Vincenzo Ciccone⁵, Doreen Ziegenhardt⁷, Pierpaolo Cavallo⁸, Ina Bergheim⁷, Alessandro Weisz⁹, Pietro Vajro¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Sa), Italy. Electronic address: luca.pierri@hotmail.com.
² Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Genomics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (Sa), Italy.
³ Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Sa), Italy.
⁴ Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Sa), Italy; Laboratory of Metabolomics Theoreo, 84090 Montecorvino Pugliano (Sa), Italy.
⁵ University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona", 84131 Salerno, Italy.
⁶ Genomix4life Srl, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (Sa), Italy.
⁷ Department of Nutritional Sciences, Molecular Nutritional Science, University of Vienna, Althanstr, 14 (UZA2), 1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Department of Physics, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Sa), Italy.
⁹ Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Genomics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (Sa), Italy; University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona", 84131 Salerno, Italy.
¹⁰ Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Sa), Italy; University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona", 84131 Salerno, Italy; European Laboratory of Food Induced Intestinal Diseases (ELFID), University of Naples Federico II, 80100 Naples, Italy.

PMID: 29773420
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinre.2018.03.015

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Bacteroides / isolation & purification
Blood Glucose / analysis
Case-Control Studies
Child
Endotoxins / blood
Ethanol / blood
Fatty Liver / microbiology
Fatty Liver / physiopathology*
Female
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans
Intestinal Absorption
Male
Pediatric Obesity / physiopathology*
Pilot Projects
Prevotella / isolation & purification

Substances

Blood Glucose
Endotoxins
Ethanol