A research team from the Medical University of Vienna has made further progress in the treatment of intestinal inflammation.

New research reveals that specialized gut bacteria convert bile acids into powerful healing compounds, offering hope for ...

When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into early life.

The farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is a bile acid nuclear receptor that plays a crucial role in regulating bile acid and sterol metabolism.

Intestinal detoxification receptors and the VDR share ligands and target genes. It has been shown that primary bile acids are capable of inducing cathelicidin gene expression in biliary epithelial ...

When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into early life.

The high-fat diet also led to changes in how some liver genes worked, particularly those related to bile acid processing. These changes persisted regardless of what the offspring ate after being ...

Maternal diet, excess bile acid and liver disease - Moms who eat a high-fat, high-sugar diet during pregnancy can increase ...

The researchers further explored the impact of these changes on the gut-liver axis and found alterations in the expression of ...