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.