Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Maternal regulation of biliary disease in neonates via gut microbial metabolites

  • Jai Junbae Jee,
  • Li Yang,
  • Pranavkumar Shivakumar,
  • Pei-pei Xu,
  • Reena Mourya,
  • Unmesha Thanekar,
  • Pu Yu,
  • Yu Zhu,
  • Yongkang Pan,
  • Haibin Wang,
  • Xufei Duan,
  • Yongqin Ye,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Zhu Jin,
  • Yuanmei Liu,
  • Zhiqing Cao,
  • Miki Watanabe-Chailland,
  • Lindsey E. Romick-Rosendale,
  • Michael Wagner,
  • Lin Fei,
  • Zhenhua Luo,
  • Nicholas J. Ollberding,
  • Shao-tao Tang,
  • Jorge A. Bezerra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27689-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The pathogenesis of biliary atresia remains poorly understood. Here, the authors report that maternal butyrate treatment alters the gut microbiome and glutamine/hypoxanthine metabolites similar to human subjects, and suppresses biliary atresia in newborn mice.