Gut Microbiota-Mediated Pleiotropic Effects of Fucose Can Improve Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Modulating Bile Acid Metabolism and Enhancing Propionate Production

Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2021 Jan 19;27(2):e10-e11. doi: 10.1093/ibd/izaa233.

Stanislav Sitkin^{1

2

3}, Timur Vakhitov², Svetlana Kononova², Maria Skalinskaya^{1

2}, Juris Pokrotnieks^{4

5}

¹ Department of Internal Diseases, Gastroenterology and Dietetics, North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, St. Petersburg, Russia.
² Department of Microbiology, State Research Institute of Highly Pure Biopreparations, St. Petersburg, Russia.
³ Institute of Perinatology and Pediatrics, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia.
⁴ Department of Internal Diseases, Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia.
⁵ Centre of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.

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Keywords: Crohn’s disease; bile acids; fucose; gut microbiota; inflammatory bowel disease; propionate; ulcerative colitis.

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