2 GUT-LIVER/BRAIN AXIS
As the saying goes, always trust your gut – it knows what your head and
liver have not yet figured out, we have been searching for pathogenesis
and therapies of brain and liver from gut in recent decades. Indeed,
intestinal epithelium, gut microbial composition, and gut-derived enzyme
and metabolites are all instrumental factors in the occurrence and
development of numerous liver and brain diseases. The reciprocal
interactions are termed into gut-liver/brain axis respectively. Below, a
brief introduction of gut-liver/brain axis is provided, emphasizing gut
microbial function in liver/brain diseases and pathways and mediators
amid.