Cross-Talk Between Bile Acids and Gastro-Intestinal and Thermogenic Hormones: Clues from Bariatric Surgery

Annals of Hepatology

Agostino Di Ciaula¹  Piero Portincasa²  Gabriella Garruti³  David Q.H. Wang⁴  Helen H. Wang⁵ 

[1] Correspondence and reprint request:;Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy;Department of Emergency and Organ Transplants, Unit of Endocrinology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy;Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA;Division of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Bisceglie, Italy;

关键词: Bariatric surgery;    Bile acids;    FXR;    GLP1;    GPBAR-1/TGR5;    Obesity;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Obesity is rapidly increasing and has reached epidemic features worldwide. Obesity is linked to insulin resistance, systemic low-grade inflammation and common pathogenic pathways with a number of comorbidities (including cancer), leading to high mortality rates. Besides change of lifestyles (diet and physical exercise) and pharmacological therapy, bariatric surgery is able to rapidly improve several metabolic and morphologic features associated with excessive fat storage, and currently represents an in vivo model to study the pathogenic mechanisms underlying obesity and obesity-related complications. Studies on obese subjects undergoing bariatric surgery find that the effects of surgery are not simply secondary to gastric mechanical restriction and malabsorption which induce body weight loss. In fact, some surgical procedures positively modify key pathways involving the intestine, bile acids, receptor signaling, gut microbiota, hormones and thermogenesis, leading to systemic metabolic changes. Furthermore, bariatric surgery represents a suitable model to evaluate the gene-environment interaction and some epigenetic mechanisms linking obesity and insulin resistance to metabolic diseases.

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