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Gut Reactions: Breaking Down Xenobiotic–Microbiome Interactions
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The microbiome plays a key role in health and disease, and there has been considerable interest in therapeutic targeting of the microbiome as well as mining this rich resource in drug discovery efforts. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that the gut microbiota can itself influence the actions of a range of xenobiotics, in both beneficial and potentially harmful ways. Traditionally, clinical studies evaluating the pharmacokinetics of new drugs have mostly ignored the important direct and indirect effects of the gut microbiome on drug metabolism and efficacy. Despite some important observations from xenobiotic metabolism in general, there is only an incomplete understanding of the scope of influence of the microbiome specifically on drug metabolism and absorption, and how this might influence systemic concentrations of parent compounds and toxic metabolites. The significance of both microbial metabolism of xenobiotics and the impact of the gut microbiome on host hepatic enzyme systems is nonetheless gaining traction and presents a further challenge in drug discovery efforts, with implications for improving treatment outcomes or counteracting adverse drug reactions. Microbial factors must now be considered when determining drug pharmacokinetics and the impact that an evolving and dynamic microbiome could have in this regard. In this review, we aim to integrate the contribution of the gut microbiome in health and disease to xenobiotic metabolism focusing on therapeutic interventions, pharmacological drug action, and chemical biotransformations that collectively will have implications for the future practice of precision medicine.
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This narrative review argues that the gut microbiome exerts both direct (microbial biotransformation) and indirect (regulation of host hepatic enzymes) effects on xenobiotic metabolism, with consequences for drug activation, inactivation, toxicity, and therapeutic response. It calls for incorporating microbial factors into pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic profiling and precision medicine.
Key findings
- Direct microbial biotransformation can activate prodrugs (e.g., sulfasalazine to 5-ASA by azoreductases), reactivate drugs (irinotecan to cytotoxic SN-38 via β-glucuronidases, causing GI side effects), or inactivate drugs (digoxin reduction contingent on specific *Eggerthella lenta* strains and inhibited by dietary arginine).
- The gut microbiome indirectly regulates host hepatic drug-processing genes: germ-free mice show markedly reduced hepatic Cyp3a11 mRNA/protein (the mouse homolog of human CYP3A4, which metabolizes >60% of drugs), while Cyp1a2 and Cyp4a14 are substantially increased; effects are enzyme-specific and depend on age and sex, with the largest effects in male mice at 90 days.
- A screen of >1000 marketed drugs against individual gut bacteria found that 24% of drugs with human targets inhibited growth of at least one bacterial strain in vitro; metformin, methotrexate, olanzapine, risperidone, PPIs, opioids, and NSAIDs are cited as altering microbiome composition/diversity.
- Microbial metabolism of dietary choline and carnitine produces TMA, which host hepatic processing converts to TMAO, associated with atherosclerosis; choline TMA-lyase was present in only 26% of individuals in one cited study.
Methods
- Narrative review integrating existing literature on gut microbiome–xenobiotic interactions; no primary data are generated.
- Covers microbiome composition in health/disease, biochemistry of microbial xenobiotic metabolism, factors influencing its rate/extent, evolutionary perspectives, stress-related disorders, reciprocal drug–microbiome effects, experimental approaches (germ-free and antibiotic-depleted animals, monoassociation, *C. elegans*, in vitro batch/fermentation systems, fecalase/cecalase assays, functional metagenomics, in silico/PBPK modeling, organ-on-a-chip, organoids), and microbiome-based therapeutics.
- Synthesizes findings into tables of microbial enzymes/biotransformations (Table 1), microbial regulation of host hepatic CYPs (Table 2), clinical specialties and pharmacomicrobiomics (Table 3), and outstanding questions (Table 4).
Limitations
- Stated in the paper: overreliance on fecal samples means the microbiota of more proximal regions (especially the small intestine) is poorly understood; the small intestine has higher xenobiotic exposure but lower microbial density, and its contribution is understudied.
- Stated in the paper: germ-free and antibiotic-depleted rodent models have intrinsic gastrointestinal and microbial differences from humans, and germ-free animals show physiologic/morphologic differences relevant to xenobiotic metabolism; the extent to which inducibility of microbial enzymes generalizes is unclear.
- Evident from the text: because members of the bacterial ecosystem may exhibit functional redundancy and pleiotropy, the link between microbiota composition ("structure begets function") and xenobiotic metabolism is difficult to gauge; the paper also notes that actual metabolic activity may diverge from functional potential, and that many enzyme–species assignments remain unknown.
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“The large intestine is thus an important host site for microbial metabolism, a convenient truth that fortunately aligns with our reliance on the analysis of stool samples to gain insights into our microbial inhabitants (Fraher et al., 2012;Claesson et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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“Indirectly, metabolites produced by the gut microbiome can also tune the expression and function of key liver enzymes such as those in the pivotal cytochrome P450 (CYP) superfamily.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > I. Introduction
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“However, a growing body of evidence suggests that the gut microbiota can itself influence the actions of a range of xenobiotics, in both beneficial and potentially harmful ways.”
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“With an aggregate gene catalog exceeding the human genome by more than a factor of 100 (Qin et al., 2010), the gut microbiome exhibits a diverse functional repertoire, and the encoded metabolic activities of these microbial genes equate to a large metabolic capacity far in excess of its counterpart host genome (Lynch and Pedersen, 2016).”
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“With an aggregate gene catalog exceeding the human genome by more than a factor of 100 (Qin et al., 2010), the gut microbiome exhibits a diverse functional repertoire, and the encoded metabolic activities of these microbial genes equate to a large metabolic capacity far in excess of its counterpart host genome (Lynch and Pedersen, 2016).”
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“Thus, the metabolism of many clinically used drugs is likely to be influenced by either direct or indirect effects of the gut microbiome.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > I. Introduction
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“However, these samples are not representative of the microbiome of more proximal regions of the large intestine, and the nonuniform localization and spatial organization of the gut microbiota along the gastrointestinal tract require further evaluation in terms of the functional implications for microbial xenobiotic metabolism (Tropini et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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“Data indicate a narrowing of diversity and distinctive microbiota configurations associated with ageing in long-stay care individuals compared with that of community dwellers (Claesson et al., 2012;Jeffery et al., 2016).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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“Once present in the intestinal lumen, an array of bacterial enzymes is capable of a diverse set of chemical reactions.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Direct Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics
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“Despite these concerns over under-represented microbes and/or reduced microbial gene richness, the importance of the dictum that structure begets function for the role of gut microbiota composition in xenobiotic metabolism is difficult to gauge given that members of this bacterial ecosystem may exhibit both functional redundancy and pleiotropy (Clarke et al., 2014b;Moya and Ferrer, 2016).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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“Microbial colonization of germ-free animals normalized the expression of Cyp3a and Cyp4a gene clusters to those observed in conventional animals (Selwyn et al., 2016).”
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“Although the extent of this variation is somewhat bewildering, an earlier study neatly demonstrated the important implications arising from these observations in that the propensity for enzyme inhibition varied according to the bacterial provenance of the orthologous enzymes (Wallace et al., 2015).”
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“The range of metabolic activity of the gut microbiome outlined above is supplemented via microbial regulation of host enzyme expression and activity in both the liver and large intestine, effectively regulating aspects of host drug absorption and metabolism (see Table 2).”
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“This transcriptional regulation of such a range of important host drug-processing genes by the gut microbiome may have important implications in terms of microbiome-drug interactions that are not currently routinely considered.”
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“Both mRNA and protein expression of CYP3a11 is markedly reduced in the livers of adult germ-free mice (Selwyn et al., 2015b).”
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“On the contrary, in the case in intestinal CYP enzymes, which are present in the intestine, but expressed in vastly lower amounts than the liver, intestinally mediated CYP metabolism can still be the major site of drug metabolism (Hall et al., 1999).”
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“Microbial enzymes, such as b-glucuronidases, can differ in substrate selectivity and activity depending on the bacteria from which they arise (Pollet et al., 2017).”
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“It has been shown, for example, that ciprofloxacin (a broadspectrum fluoroquinolone antibiotic) reduces hepatic Cyp3a expression and metabolism of the benzodiazepine triazolam (Toda et al., 2009a).”
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“was inducible by the drug it metabolizes (Haiser et al., 2013).”
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“Host xenobiotic metabolism is influenced by circadian rhythms (Ozturk et al., 2017)”
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“this operon was specific to drug-metabolizing strains of E. lenta”
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“actual metabolic activity of the gut microbiome may diverge from its functional potential (Tanca et al., 2017).”
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“Diurnal microbial behavior in turn is thought to influence the programming of the colonic and hepatic circadian transcriptome via fluctuating microbial metabolites”
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“these modified release formulations also increase the scope for drug-microbiome interactions (Enright et al., 2016)”
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“interindividual differences in the abundance of a cytochrome-encoding operon, responsible for the deactivation of the cardiac drug digoxin, have recently been reported”
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“this may also be true of microbial enzymatic activity because gut microbiota community structure and metabolic activity also feature biologic rhythms”
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“biochemical modification of exogenous compounds by our gut microbes is not always geared toward elimination of these foreign compounds.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“studies suggest that we share a stable set of core functions despite these variable gut microbiota profiles (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012)”
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“regulated by diet and time of feeding rather than environmental 24-hour light-dark cycles (Voigt et al., 2016;Johnson et al., 2017).”
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“due to our reliance of fecal microbiota assessments, comparatively little is known about the microbiota of the less accessible small intestine (El Aidy et al., 2015).”
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“Finally, it should also be recognized that although microbial abundance is lower in the small intestine, this should not lead to the implicit assumption that it will have a limited impact on the drugs that are predominantly absorbed in this region.”
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“For example, in the case of cyclosporine, it is estimated that up to half of the drug is metabolized by intestinal CYP enzymes (Benet and Cummins, 2001), illustrating that relatively low amounts of enzymes in the small intestine could still potentially have a significant impact for orally”
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“illustrating that relatively low amounts of enzymes in the small intestine could still potentially have a significant impact for orally administered drugs.”
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“the activity of the gut microbiota may exhibit resilience despite fluctuating community membership and structure (Song et al., 2015)”
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“host-genetic influences on gut microbiome composition (Goodrich et al., 2016;Rothschild et al., 2018) are also likely to play a role in influencing the rate and extent of microbial xenobiotic metabolism.”
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“Jet lag can disrupt this diurnal microbiota biology, a feature driven by alterations in feeding patterns (Thaiss et al., 2014).”
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“For example, in the case of cyclosporine, it is estimated that up to half of the drug is metabolized by intestinal CYP enzymes (Benet and Cummins, 2001), illustrating that relatively low amounts of enzymes in the small intestine could still potentially have a significant impact for orally”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“The microbiome-associated metabolite phenylacetic acid has also been shown to influence disease phenotype in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, contributing to hepatic lipid accumulation (Hoyles et al., 2018a).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“there are examples of disease-associated gut microbiomes, such as depression, that do result in altered behavioral phenotypes and host physiologic characteristics when transferred into animal models (Kelly et al., 2016a).”
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“it was only present in 26% of individuals”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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“The reactions carried out by the gut microbiome frequently result in the release of small molecules or carbon sources that can be used for microbial growth (Koppel et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“excess conversion to TMA can lead to artherosclerosis as a consequence of further metabolism by host hepatic processing to TMAO (Zeisel and da Costa, 2009;Wang et al., 2011;Koeth et al., 2013;Craciun et al., 2014).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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“digoxin inactivation was significantly influenced by the presence or absence of metabolizing E. lenta strains in the gut microbiota of patients”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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“host responsible for processing of the intermediate TMA to the cardiotoxic TMA-N-oxide (TMAO”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“TMA is also produced by carnitine oxygenase, a Rieske-type protein, using carnitine found in red meat as a substrate (Zhu et al., 2014).”
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“with a broad substrate specificity being a common feature of reactions catalyzed by both host and microbial enzyme (Patterson and Turnbaugh, 2014).”
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“variation in the number of mucosa-associated bacteria in the mouse gut across the circadian period, which was 10 times higher during the dark phase than during the light phase.”
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“these enzymes have an important role in the enterohepatic cycling of endogenous substances such as bile acids (Long et al., 2017).”
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“hydroxylation of lovastatin, albeit less well-characterized in terms of specific enzyme involvement, in an animal model following coadministration of an antibiotic that resulted in a more extreme depletion of the microbiota”
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“the production of trimethylamine (TMA) from dietary carnitine and choline (Wang et al., 2011;Koeth et al., 2013).”
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“hepatic detoxification of acetaminophen that was dependent on the timing of administration (Thaiss et al., 2016b).”
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“TMAO can be produced from dietary TMA via metabolic retroconversion (Hoyles et al., 2018b)”
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- Not checked yetcites Hoyles et al., 2018b
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Toxic or adverse consequences can also ensue, as is the case for irinotecan (Wallace et al., 2010)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Wallace et al., 2010 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“the most common biotransformations carried out by the gut microbiome (hydrolysis and reduction) often serve to undo the oxidative and conjugative chemistry and indeed the intended eliminative purpose of host hepatic drug metabolism (Koppel et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Koppel et al., 2017 source
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In the paper
“Gut microbiome alterations are frequently reported in stressrelated disorders such as depression, anxiety, and irritable bowel syndrome (Rajilic-Stojanovic et al., 2015;Foster et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > Gut Microbiome
What the sources say
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesNone of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“Stress is known to impact on host xenobiotic metabolism, particularly via induction of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes possibly mediated by glucocorticoids or noradrenaline (Konstandi, 2013;Pantelidou et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > Gut Microbiome
What the sources say
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedCausal:conditional· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesThe paper states this without a source or data behind it here, so there is nothing to check it against. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Many of the therapeutic interventions for such disorders are subject to biotransformation by our gut microbiome (see Table 3)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VII. The Gut Microbiome and Xenobiotics in Health and Disease: a Reciprocal Relationship
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“fibers, antibiotics, or supplementation with live cultures of lactobacilli were able to affect azoreductase enzyme activity (Chung et al., 1992)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Chung et al., 1992 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:conditional· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesNone of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“Irinotecan can also alter the composition of the intestinal microbiome in rats”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lin et al., 2012
- Not checked yetcites Alexander et al., 2017 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“The hydrolysis of the antiviral drug sorivudine to bromovinyluracil, which is then subsequently metabolized by the host to an inhibitor of host dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, may lead to toxicity due to inhibited degradation and increased concentrations of coadministered 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) (Nakayama et al., 1997).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Nakayama et al., 1997 source
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Metformin, used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, has recently been shown to alter the gut microbiota composition of treatment-naive individuals in a way that improves glucose tolerance.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Wu et al., 2017
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesNone of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“even in the absence of dietary sources of methylamines, baseline levels of TMA and TMAO are found in the circulation (De La Huerga et al., 1953;Hoyles et al., 2018b).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites De La Huerga et al., 1953 source
- Not checked yetcites Hoyles et al., 2018b
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“fish and other seafood presumed to be beneficial to health also contain significant amounts of TMA precursors as well as free TMAO (Landfald et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Landfald et al., 2017
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“24% of the drugs with human targets across therapeutic classes inhibited the growth of at least one bacterial strain in vitro.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Maier et al., 2018 source
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesA conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Many xenobiotics also impact on the composition of the gut microbiome, often in a clinically meaningful way.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“is downregulated by testosterone (Bennett et al., 2013)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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- Not checked yetcites Bennett et al., 2013 source
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In the paper
“recent studies confirm the potential importance of patient stratification on the basis of gut microbiome composition to identify responders and nonresponders to immunotherapy for the treatment of epithelial tumors and melanomas (Gopalakrishnan et al., 2018;Jobin, 2018;Routy et al., 2018)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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In the paper
“the widely present bacterial uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (Martinussen and Hammer, 1994) can convert 5-FU to the RNA-damaging 5-fluorouridine monophosphate using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system (Garcia-Gonzalez et al., 2017;Scott et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
What the sources say
Strength:boosted· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Metformin appears to have a dose-dependent antimicrobial effect with inhibition of specific bacterial strains only apparent once tested at physiologic intestinal concentrations (Maier et al., 2018).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Maier et al., 2018 source
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedCausal:conditional· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“the microbiota is responsible for the conversion of the prodrug sulfasalazine into 5-aminosalicylate (5-ASA)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Peppercorn and Goldman, 1972b
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“substance use disorders are associated with reduced microbiota diversity (Xu et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Xu et al., 2017
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Dietary phytochemicals can induce gut microbiota alterations, exerting prebiotic-like effects to stimulate the growth of beneficial bacteria (Laparra and Sanz, 2010).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Laparra and Sanz, 2010
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Chronic alcohol abuse also alters gut microbiome composition (Leclercq et al., 2017)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Leclercq et al., 2017 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“There are also physiologic and morphologic differences between germ-free animals and conventional controls relevant for xenobiotic metabolism (Sousa et al., 2008).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Sousa et al., 2008 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesA conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“This includes both germ-free models or those generated via depletion of the gut microbiota with a cocktail of antibiotics, and can provide valuable pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic insights.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:conditional· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“fluctuations in microbial composition of the gut microbiome are associated with alterations in fecal miRNAs (Moloney et al., 2018).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Moloney et al., 2018 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Flavonoids also shape gut microbiota membership and function (Oteiza et al., 2018).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Oteiza et al., 2018 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Other dietary compounds known to alter the composition of the gut microbiome include noncaloric artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame (Suez et al., 2015), a feature with functional implications associated with the induction of glucose intolerance in mice (Suez et al., 2014).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Suez et al., 2015 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Dietary omega-3 PUFA status impacts on the cecal microbiome and metabolome in mice (Robertson et al., 2017b)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Robertson et al., 2017b
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“These approaches are not without their limitations, not least because of the intrinsic gastrointestinal and microbial differences between humans and rodents (Nguyen et al., 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Nguyen et al., 2015 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“The capacity of the gut microbiome to metabolize environmental chemicals is mediated by enzymes with a wide distribution such as b-glucoronidases, azoreductases, and nitroreductases, which are able to chemically transform a range of agents such as nitrotoluenes, pesticides, polychlorobiphenyls, azo dyes, and metals (Claus et al., 2016).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Claus et al., 2016 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Other dietary compounds known to alter the composition of the gut microbiome include noncaloric artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame (Suez et al., 2015), a feature with functional implications associated with the induction of glucose intolerance in mice (Suez et al., 2014).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Suez et al., 2014 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Methotrexate results in reduced microbiota diversity and compositional shifts in the abundance of Bacteroides associated with the induction of diarrhea in rats (Fijlstra et al., 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Fijlstra et al., 2015 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“The capacity of the gut microbiome to metabolize environmental chemicals is mediated by enzymes with a wide distribution such as b-glucoronidases, azoreductases, and nitroreductases, which are able to chemically transform a range of agents such as nitrotoluenes, pesticides, polychlorobiphenyls, azo dyes, and metals (Claus et al., 2016).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Claus et al., 2016 source
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Although probiotics are not thought to substantially change the global compositional characteristics of the gut microbiome (Kristensen et al., 2016), they do impact on functional metabolic outputs such as the production of short chain fatty acids and other pharmabiotics, which may be important in their propensity to influence host health (Patterson et al., 2014).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Patterson et al., 2014
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesNone of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“olanzapine, which induces alterations in gut microbiome composition in rodents linked to the weight gain and other metabolic side effects that are associated with its use”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as bisphenol A and ethinyl estradiol, by incorporation into the diet from periconception through weaning, induced generational and sex-dependent gut microbiome changes in mice, including increased relative abundances of Bacteroides, Prevotellaceae, and Akkermansia (Javurek et al., 2016).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Javurek et al., 2016 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Glyphosate, the most commonly used herbicide (Cuhra et al., 2016), inhibits microbial enzymes (5enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase), and some glyphosate formulations do have antibacterial properties (Tarazona et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Tarazona et al., 2017 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic may also have an important impact on the gut microbiota (Lu et al., 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lu et al., 2015
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedCausal:conditional· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Glyphosate, the most commonly used herbicide (Cuhra et al., 2016), inhibits microbial enzymes (5enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase), and some glyphosate formulations do have antibacterial properties (Tarazona et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Tarazona et al., 2017 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“host miRNA production by intestinal epithelial cells has a role in shaping the gut microbiome by affecting bacterial growth (Liu et al., 2016)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Liu et al., 2016 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesNone of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“evidence emerge from studies in germ-free rodents of microbial regulation of miRNA expression in brain regions of importance for neuropsychiatry such as the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and hippocampus (Chen et al., 2017;Hoban et al., 2017;Moloney et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Although probiotics are not thought to substantially change the global compositional characteristics of the gut microbiome (Kristensen et al., 2016), they do impact on functional metabolic outputs such as the production of short chain fatty acids and other pharmabiotics, which may be important in their propensity to influence host health (Patterson et al., 2014).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Kristensen et al., 2016 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Prebiotic administration concurrently with olanzapine can reduce the antipsychoticinduced weight gain in rodents (Kao et al., 2018).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Kao et al., 2018 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“For example, host hepatic enzyme expression and activity are altered in animals reared in a germ-free environment (Selwyn et al., 2016).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2016 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesNone of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“Many of these same chemical agents can also alter the composition and/or function of the gut microbiota.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“other prescription medications are also associated with alterations in gut microbiome diversity, including PPIs, opioids, and NSAIDs (Le Bastard et al., 2018).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Le Bastard et al., 2018 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Chronic exposure to low doses of the insecticide, Chlorpyrifos, changed the composition of the gut microbiota in both a simulated human intestinal microbiota preparation and rats, reducing the abundance of Lactobacillus spp.and Bifidobacterium spp, bacteria presumed to be beneficial (Joly et al., 2013).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Joly et al., 2013 source
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesThe paper states this without a source or data behind it here, so there is nothing to check it against. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Direct mechanisms include activation (conversion of prodrugs into active drugs) and deactivation (detoxification).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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In the paper
“Preclinical studies indicate that stress exposure across the life span can impact on gut microbiome composition.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedCausal:conditional· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Fecalase or cecalase, stable and translationally relevant cell-free extracts of feces or cecal matter with bacterial enzymatic activity, are frequently used incubations (Tamura et al., 1980).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Tamura et al., 1980 source
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Many of the in vitro approaches discussed are perhaps overly simplistic and do not best capitalize on the unique features of the gut ecosystem, such as microniches, pH gradients, and dynamic microbe-tissue interactions (Tralau and Luch, 2013).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
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- Not checked yetcites Tralau and Luch, 2013
Load-bearingStrength:hedged· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesNone of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“| Cyp1a2 (mice) | Increased mRNA | Largest effects seen at 90 days | Selwyn et al., 2015a |”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2015a
- Not checked yetcites Jourova et al., 2017 source
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In the paper
“Indirect mechanisms include enterohepatic cycling, as microbial biotransformation of compounds conjugated in the liver releases the conjugated group, reactivating the compound.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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In the paper
“The localization and spatial organization of the gut microbiota are not uniform along the gastrointestinal tract.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
Load-bearingStrength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Also neglected to date is the gut mycobiome, and there are indications that our intestinal fungi are an important component of host-microbe interactions of relevance to immune homeostasis and inflammatory disorders (Leonardi et al., 2018) and stress-related disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (Botschuijver et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Botschuijver et al., 2017 source
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis programming and responses show a dependency on an intact gut microbiome(Clarke et al., 2014b).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Clarke et al., 2014b
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Also neglected to date is the gut mycobiome, and there are indications that our intestinal fungi are an important component of host-microbe interactions of relevance to immune homeostasis and inflammatory disorders (Leonardi et al., 2018) and stress-related disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (Botschuijver et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Leonardi et al., 2018 source
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“Although there are many examples of remediation opportunities, we should not neglect the prophylactic power of diet to help sculpt the diversity that is necessary in a healthy gut microbiome (Shanahan et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Shanahan et al., 2017 source
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIn the paper
“We can take encouragement in these efforts from recent observations regarding the importance of gut microbiome composition and the response to cancer therapeutic drugs (Jobin, 2018).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Jobin, 2018 source
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“Gut-derived microbial metabolites such as propionate, whose production could be stimulated by prebiotics, can also exert protective effects on blood-brain barrier integrity (Hoyles et al., 2018c).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Psychobiotics
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“Currently, preclinical behavioral screening platforms are most frequently used to identify candidate psychobiotics for further evaluation in clinical platforms (Bravo et al., 2011;Savignac et al., 2014Savignac et al., , 2015;;Burokas et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Psychobiotics
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“There are both direct and indirect mechanisms through which the gut microbiome can influence xenobiotic metabolism to modulate efficacy, absorption, and bioavailability.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“VSL3 moderately decreased mRNAs of Cyp3a44 and”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2016 source
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“Largest effects seen at 90 days in male animals only”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2015a
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“For example, a genetically engineered Lactococcus lactis-secreting interleukin-10 has been used to deliver a localized therapeutic dose of IL-10 for the amelioration of murine colitis in an animal model of IBD (Steidler et al., 2000).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IX. Toward Microbiome-Based Treatments and Novel Biotherapeutics
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- Not checked yetcites Steidler et al., 2000 source
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“Largest effects seen at 90 days”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Bacterial metabolism of tryptophan to indole compounds may be equally important because either in their own right or following host processing, these microbial tryptophan metabolites can impact on host physiology and behavior (Lee et al., 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Psychobiotics
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“the gut microbiome appears to be equally vulnerable and plastic in its response to homeostatic threats directed at either terminus of the gut-brain axis(Dinan and Cryan, 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Dinan and Cryan, 2017
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“The gut microbiome recruits the gut-brain axis to signal to the central nervous system.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Upregulated following colonization, but VSL3 probiotic”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Concerns about the variability of the assay have seen the development of a fecal microbial enzyme mix (Yeo et al., 2012).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
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“cocktail was not able to normalize their expression;”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Indeed, this is already partially functional in this regard because the detection of hydrogen signals can be used as a proxy for regional fermentation patterns (Fig. 7).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
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- Not checked yetcites Kalantar-Zadeh et al., 2018 source
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“| Cyp2c (mice) | Increased mRNA | Largest effects seen at 90 days in male animals only | Selwyn et al., 2015a |”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2015a
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“Meanwhile, nextgeneration probiotics may be based on the use of microbes found to be deficient in certain disorders, as is the case of A. muciniphila in obesity, diabetes, and cardiometabolic diseases (Cani and de Vos, 2017)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IX. Toward Microbiome-Based Treatments and Novel Biotherapeutics
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- Not checked yetcites Cani and de Vos, 2017
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“Communication along this axis is bidirectional.”
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“| Cyp3a (mice) | Decreased mRNA and protein | Upregulated following colonization, but VSL3 probiotic | Selwyn et al., 2016 |”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2016 source
- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2015a
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“An increased focus on this important area comes at a time when sequencing studies have identified gut microbiome alterations in many of the disorders treated by these same drugs.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“The reciprocal nature of these microbe-drug interactions has also been demonstrated with many of these therapeutic agents also modifying the composition and function of the gut microbiome (see Table 3)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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In the paper
“We have noted above a number of instances in which diet-microbe-host interactions can lead to adverse consequences.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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In the paper
“The gut microbiome can have a wide variety of direct and indirect effects on the metabolism of pharmaceuticals, dietary compounds, and environmental chemicals.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Candidate psychobiotics that beneficially impact on host tryptophan metabolites include Bifidobacterium longum subsp.longum 35624 (previously B. infantis 35624) (Desbonnet et al., 2008) and L. reuteri (Marin et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Psychobiotics
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“similar to the human CYP4A cluster”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2016 source
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“Largest effects seen at 90 days”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2015a
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“| Cyp4a (mice) | Increased mRNA and protein | Downregulated following colonization, but VSL3 | Selwyn et al., 2016 |”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2016 source
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“Downregulated following colonization, but VSL3”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“probiotic cocktail was not able to normalize their”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“| Cyp2e1(mice) | Increased mRNA | Largest effects seen at 90 days | Selwyn et al., 2015a |”
- Also stated in: § X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives · plain
“| | Increased mRNA | Monoassociation with E. coli Nissle 1917 but not | |”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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In the paper
“This viewpoint overlooks the fact that before orally delivered compounds reach the liver, an increasing number are first exposed to the gut microbiota and their associated collection of metabolic enzymes (which exceeds the repertoire of the liver) (Li et al., 2014).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > I. Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Li et al., 2014
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“Glucuronides are abundant in the gut and are subject to processing by microbial b-glucuronidase enzymes, which act to liberate glucuronic acid sugars from conjugated compounds (Pellock and Redinbo, 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Direct Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics
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“Conversely, but equally important, the infant gut is largely thought to be sterile in utero and colonized during birth and postnatally with a trajectory toward an adult-like complexity taking approximately 3 years (Clarke et al., 2014a;Perez-Munoz et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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- Not checked yetcites Perez-Munoz et al., 2017 source
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“In contrast to this interindividual variation, a typical healthy adult gut microbiota is characterized by both high compositional diversity and stability (Clarke et al., 2014b).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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- Not checked yetcites Clarke et al., 2014b
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In the paper
“The ability of the gut microbiome to remodel and persist in the face of insults such as antibiotic use is probably only matched in the host by the regenerative capacity of the liver (Michalopoulos, 2007) (Fig. 1, A and B).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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- Not checked yetcites Michalopoulos, 2007 source
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“As indicated above, colonization of bacteria increases to highest levels in the large intestine such that sites with a higher exposure to xenobiotics in fact may have a lower potential for microbial metabolism, such as the small intestine.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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“Direct microbial biotransformation of xenobiotics occurs following their ingestion, and the nature of these interactions depends on whether the compounds encountered by the gut microbiome are poorly absorbed or are first conjugated by the liver and subsequently reach the intestine via biliary excretion.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Direct Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics
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“There is also a divergence in intestinal microbiome assembly between different birth modes (Bokulich et al., 2016), between breast-and formula-fed infants (Clarke et al., 2014a), and between preterm and full-term infants, with implications for the associated microbial metabolite profile (Hill et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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“Of course, during adulthood there are also a number of factors that shape or distort the gut microbiome in the colonic metabolic niche, reviewed in detail elsewhere, such as diet (Portune et al., 2017;Sandhu et al., 2017;Shanahan et al., 2017), exercise (Campbell and Wisniewski, 2017;Barton et al., 2018), geographical location (Dikongue and Segurel, 2017; Quigley, 2017), host genetics (Kurilshikov”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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- Not checked yetcites Portune et al., 2017 source
- Not checked yetcites Campbell and Wisniewski, 2017
- Not checked yetcites Dikongue and Segurel, 2017
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“Unlike the host genome, the gut microbiome is readily modifiable (e.g., by diet or antibiotic usage), and this can have important implications for expansion or contraction of its metabolic functions.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > II. The Gut Microbiome
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“Daidzin and genistin, glycoside isoflavones, are converted to daidzein and genistein by bacterial b-glucosidases, with the important estrogen equol being the end product following further biotransformation of daidzein (Setchell et al., 2002).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Direct Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics
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“Differential effects for these strains were also noted with increased expression of hepatic Cyp2e1 following monoassociation with L. plantarum Nizo2877 but decreased expression following colonization of E. coli Nissle 1917(Jourova et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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“Studies also indicate that the impact of the gut microbiota on hepatic drug-processing genes is enzyme-specific and depends on both age and sex, with expression patterns varying across the life span according to developmental periods, and the most marked effects observed in male mice at 90 days of age (Selwyn et al., 2015a).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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“Conversely, the same study showed that gene expression levels of Cyp1a2 (metabolic activation of procarcinogens and deactivation of certain anticancer drugs) and Cyp4a14 (metabolism of fatty acids and eicosanoids) were both substantially increased in germ-free mice.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Selwyn et al., 2015b
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“Colonization effects are likely strain specific because monoassociation of germ-free mice with both Lactobacillus plantarum Nizo2877 and Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 decreased the expression of Cyp1a2 mRNA to conventional levels but did not act to restore the decreased expression of Cyp3a11 mRNA.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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“A recent analysis of the Human Microbiome Project gastrointestinal database is instructive on the complexity of this metabolic function, revealing a total of 3013 microbiome-encoded b-glucuronidases, which clustered into structural categories with differing functional capacities for various glucuronide substrates (Pollet et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Direct Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics
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“Administration of VSL3, a probiotic formulation containing eight live strains of bacteria, did not impact on the expression of these genes in germ-free animals but did modulate their expression in conventional animals, suggesting that the composition of the host microbiota can influence the effects of other microbes on expression of host drug-metabolizing enzymes.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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“CYP3a11 is the mouse homolog of human CYP3A4, and this enzyme metabolizes more than 60% of all drugs.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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“Experimentally, Western-style high-fat diets have been associated with a diminished microbial capacity to metabolize flavonoids through bacterial chalcone synthase, and microbiome-derived flavonoids can ameliorate the rate of postdieting weight gain (Thaiss et al., 2016a;Chilloux and Dumas, 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Direct Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics
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- Not checked yetcites Thaiss et al., 2016a
- Not checked yetcites Chilloux and Dumas, 2017
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“Taken together, this functional metabolic repertoire includes the capacity for clinically relevant activation (e.g., sulfasalazine) (Peppercorn and Goldman, 1972b), reactivation (e.g., irinotecan/SN-38) (Wallace et al., 2010), and detoxification (e.g., digoxin) (Haiser et al., 2013) of xenobiotics with broad implications for drug action and toxicity (see Table 1).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Direct Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics
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“It should be noted that ciprofloxacin is metabolized in the liver and can directly inhibit CYP1A2, CYP2D6, and CYP3A4 (Bolhuis et al., 2011).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Bolhuis et al., 2011 source
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“This was associated with a reduction in lithocholic acid-producing bacteria, consistent with the suggestion that lithocholic acid influences hepatic CYP expression (Toda et al., 2009b).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Microbial Regulation of Host Hepatic Drug Metabolism
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“Factors that are known to influence the composition of the gut microbiome, such as age and geography, also overlap with variable drug pharmacokinetics and impact on the relative abundances of genes coding for xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes (Das et al., 2016;Quigley, 2017).”
- Also stated in: § IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism · plain
“Other factors known to influence the composition of the gut microbiome, such as age, hormone status, and sex, also overlap with variable drug pharmacokinetics and impact on the relative abundances of genes coding for xenobioticmetabolizing enzymes.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Das et al., 2016
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“Drugs with low permeability through the intestinal membrane, or drugs that are subject to efflux by apically bound efflux proteins (e.g., P glycoprotein), can prolong drug residence within the intestine, with greater amounts of those drugs reaching distal regions of the intestine (Hall et al., 1999).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Hall et al., 1999 source
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“However, many drugs display poor solubility, which can lead to slow and incomplete absorption with the drug being absorbed from distal regions of the small intestine and/or the colon.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“gut microbiota community structure and metabolic activity also feature biologic rhythms”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“Xenobiotics can become a candidate substrate for direct processing if they are poorly absorbed, appropriately formulated, or indirectly reach the colonic lumen following biliary excretion, which is also a route through which i.v.administered drugs can become subject to chemical transformation by gut microbes.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“Oral delivery of advanced drug formulations designed for extended release (e.g., sustained release tablets) is on the increase”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Sousa et al., 2008 source
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“one of the most frequently reported findings across an array of disorders is a narrowing of gut microbiome diversity often accompanied by more specific but less consistent compositional alterations at various taxonomic levels.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VII. The Gut Microbiome and Xenobiotics in Health and Disease: a Reciprocal Relationship
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“digoxin use is on the decline amid the emergence of alternative therapies with preferable safety profiles (Haynes et al., 2008;Eade et al., 2013).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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“Both the host and the microbiome have evolved an extensive metabolic capacity to deal with exogenous molecules with the combined scope impressive in its breadth.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
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“Host-microbe interactions are frequently viewed from an evolutionary perspective (Davenport et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Davenport et al., 2017 source
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“this can have consequences in terms of deactivating or activating drugs in the case of digoxin (Haiser et al., 2013) and sulfasalazine (Peppercorn and Goldman, 1972b), respectively.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Haiser et al., 2013 source
- Not checked yetcites Peppercorn and Goldman, 1972b
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“which is also associated with gut microbiome alterations (Dinan and Cryan, 2017)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Dinan and Cryan, 2017
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“This informs the hologenome theory of evolution with the holobiont encompassing a network of biomolecules derived from both the host plus its associated microbes (Bordenstein and Theis, 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > V. The Evolution of Microbial Enzymes for Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Bordenstein and Theis, 2015
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“Circadian rhythm disruption and appetite fluctuations, including carbohydrate craving, are prominent in stress-related psychiatric disorders such as major depression (Otte et al., 2016)”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > IV. Factors Influencing the Rate and Extent of Gut Microbiome Xenobiotic Metabolism
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- Not checked yetcites Otte et al., 2016 source
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“The metabolism of azo dyes to aromatic amines is also carried out by azoreductases”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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- Not checked yetcites Chung et al., 1992 source
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“of a panel of 30 chemotherapeutic drugs examined in vitro against various bacteria, 10 were found to be inhibited and six exhibited improved efficacy in a way that could be linked to modification of the chemical structure of the drug in the case of gemcitabine, fludarabine, cladribine, and CB1954 (Lehouritis et al., 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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- Not checked yetcites Lehouritis et al., 2015 source
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“Although the study largely focused on the in vitro antibacterial activity of each drug screened against one representative bacterial strain per species, the implications for more complex bacterial communities need to be considered.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
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- Not checked yetcites Maier et al., 2018 source
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“5-ASA can be converted to N-acetyl 5-ASA by intestinal bacteria, a reaction that does show variability in human fecal samples (van Hogezand et al., 1992).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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- Not checked yetcites van Hogezand et al., 1992 source
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“Exposure in incubation experiments to a panel of hosttargeted drugs, including digoxin and sulfasalazine, induces subtle changes in community structure, but more marked changes in the genes expressed by the gut microbiome, including those genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism (Maurice et al., 2013).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Maurice et al., 2013 source
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“suggesting possible differential processing of TMA in men and women.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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“circulating TMAO may play a role in the protection from hyperammonemia (Kloiber et al., 1988) and from glutamate neurotoxicity (Minana et al., 1996).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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“Chronic exposure of mice to TMAO attenuates diet-associated glucose tolerance, reducing endoplasmic stress and adipogenesis in adipocytes (Dumas et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. The Microbiome and Therapeutic Mechanism of Action, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects
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- Not checked yetcites Dumas et al., 2017 source
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“although omega-3 PUFA supplementation did not change gut microbiome diversity or composition at the phyla level, an increase in several short chain fatty acidproducing bacteria such as Bifidobacterium, Roseburia, and Lactobacillus was noted (Watson et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
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- Not checked yetcites Watson et al., 2017
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“Recent evidence suggests that resveratrol, for example, may act to remodel the gut microbiome to yield cardiovascular benefits, antiobesity effects, and improvements in glucose homeostasis (Chen et al., 2016;Bird et al., 2017;Sung et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
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“Glyphosate, the most commonly used herbicide (Cuhra et al., 2016), inhibits microbial enzymes (5enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase), and some glyphosate formulations do have antibacterial properties (Tarazona et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
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- Not checked yetcites Cuhra et al., 2016 source
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“Another antipsychotic, risperidone, also causes shifts in gut microbiome composition in mice (Bahra et al., 2015), and in children and adolescents (Bahr et al., 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
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“Traffic-related air pollution can result in a decreased relative abundance of Bacteroidaceae and an increased relative abundance of Coriobacteriaceae (Alderete et al., 2018).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > C. Environmental and Industrial Chemicals
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- Not checked yetcites Alderete et al., 2018 source
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“Plant sterol ester produced the strongest compositional effect with more modest alterations noted following oat b-glucan and bile salt hydrolase-active L. reuteri APC 2587, with few effects noted for atorvastatin.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > B. Impact of Current and Putative Therapeutic Interventions on Microbial Community Structure and Function
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- Not checked yetcites Ryan et al., 2017 source
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“For drug metabolism alone, the implications of microbial biotransformation or other indirect actions of gut bacteria are hugely significant because it results in the activation or inactivation of drugs and often generates byproducts that are toxic to the host (Fig. 8).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Stress exposure is also an important consideration, particularly during the extremes of life when the gut microbiota is more chaotic and vulnerable.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Gastrointestinal organoids can be used to more accurately model aspects of epithelial barrier dynamics, including cellular differentiation and proliferation, in specific intestinal segments bring advantages over cell culture models in unraveling the molecular basis of the host-microbe interactions (Hill and Spence, 2016).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
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- Not checked yetcites Hill and Spence, 2016
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“as are other lifestyle factors such as exercise, which is also known to improve gut microbiota profiles (O'Sullivan et al., 2015).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites O'Sullivan et al., 2015
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“These bacteria are likely most important for pharmacomicrobiomics and reside in a reaction chamber with a mean pH of 6.4-7 and a lower redox potential than other gastrointestinal niches.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“The highest density of bacteria is present in the large intestine, with recent estimates of 10 13 bacterial cells in the large intestine associated with microbial genes encoding a broad range of enzymes necessary for xenobiotic biotransformation.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Although there are many reports of elevated or decreased circulating levels of microbiomeassociated metabolites in pathologic states, there remains an incomplete understanding of their functional important in the absence of disease.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Oxygen partial pressures along the gastrointestinal tract also contribute to these metabolic niches.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“The pharmacomicrobiomic web portal currently lists over 90 examples of such chemicals (http://pharmacomicrobiomics. com/view/chemical/).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Microbial metabolites and/or production of pathway intermediates are also important from a pharmacokinetic perspective, as is the impact of bacterial translocation on immune responses in the context of therapeutic efficacy.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“has met with somewhat mixed results in healthy human subjects with strain-specific positive results (Allen et al., 2016;Papalini et al., 2018) and a failure to translate (Kelly et al., 2017).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > A. Psychobiotics
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“The expression of host hepatic CYP genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism is also influenced by the gut microbiome.”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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“Insights from invertebrate models, such as the nematode C. elegans, are Microbial Xenobiotic Metabolism increasingly used to inform our understanding of host-microbe interactions (Clark and Walker, 2018), and in the current context, a number of examples”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
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- Not checked yetcites Clark and Walker, 2018
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“The value of such an approach once it leads to well-defined enzyme biochemistry can be seen in an earlier study that demonstrated that it was possible to selectively inhibit bacterial b-glucuronidases to alleviate drug-induced gastrointestinal toxicity arising from irinotecan (Wallace et al., 2010).”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > VIII. Experimental Approaches in Pharmacomicrobiomics
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- Not checked yetcites Wallace et al., 2010 source
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“Monoassociation with E. coli Nissle 1917 but not”
§ Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic-microbiome interactions > X. Summary, Conclusions, and Perspectives
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Clinical studies evaluating the pharmacokinetics of new drugs have mostly ignored the important direct and indirect effects of the gut microbiome on drug metabolism and efficacy.
“Traditionally, clinical studies evaluating the pharmacokinetics of new drugs have mostly ignored the important direct and indirect effects of the gut microbiome on drug metabolism and efficacy.”
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There is only an incomplete understanding of the scope of influence of the microbiome specifically on drug metabolism and absorption, and how this might influence systemic concentrations of parent compounds and toxic metabolites.
“Despite some important observations from xenobiotic metabolism in general, there is only an incomplete understanding of the scope of influence of the microbiome specifically on drug metabolism and absorption, and how this might influence systemic concentrations of parent compounds and toxic metabolites.”
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The majority of orally administered drugs are normally absorbed in the upper small intestine, assuming that the drug is highly soluble and highly permeable in this region.
“The majority of orally administered drugs are normally absorbed in the upper small intestine, the prime absorptive region of the intestine, assuming that the drug is highly soluble and highly permeable in this region.”
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The small-intestinal microbiota is less well studied due in part to the difficulty in obtaining relevant samples.
“However, this needs to be considered in context of the less well studied smallintestinal microbiota, due in part to the difficulty in obtaining relevant samples.”
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There remains no consensus on the actual membership of the core taxa present in the gut microbiome, and different sequencing and analysis approaches will give different results.
“It should be noted that there remains to be a consensus on actual membership of the core taxa present in the gut microbiome, and different sequencing and analysis approaches will give different results.”
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The contribution of modified release formulations to bioavailability is rarely appraised.
“this is a feature rarely appraised for its contribution to bioavailability.”
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Knowledge of interindividual variation of the gut microbiome during health and disease at the taxonomic level is more advanced than the grasp of the functional implications of these compositional differences.
“our knowledge of interindividual variation of the gut microbiome during health and disease at the taxonomic level is more advanced than our grasp of the functional implications, if any, of these compositional differences.”
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The functional implications of disease-associated gut microbiome alterations are not currently clear for microbial xenobiotic metabolism.
“the functional implications of these gut microbiome alterations are not currently clear for microbial xenobiotic metabolism.”
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Bacterial genes encoding porphyranases, agarases, and associated proteins transferred from marine red algae to bacteria residing in the gastrointestinal tract of Japanese individuals as a consequence of their seaweed consumption.
“transfer of bacterial genes encoding porphyranases, agarases, and associated proteins from marine red algae to bacteria residing in the gastrointestinal tract of Japanese individuals as a consequence of their seaweed consumption.”
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The majority of orally administered drugs are normally absorbed in the upper small intestine.
“The majority of orally administered drugs are normally absorbed in the upper small intestine assuming that the drug is highly soluble and highly permeable in this region.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Orally administered drugs are highly soluble and highly permeable in the upper small intestine.
“The majority of orally administered drugs are normally absorbed in the upper small intestine assuming that the drug is highly soluble and highly permeable in this region.”
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“The mouth is the first microbial compartment that a swallowed supplement meets, and oral bacteria carry reductive and hydrolytic activities of the same type that make the intestinal microbiota a determinant of drug disposition [103,104,105].”
From Berberine-Drug Interactions: Mechanisms, Clinical Relevance and Risk Stratification-A Narrative Review (2026) · cites this paper as [105]
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“Therefore, berberine can indirectly influence the disposition of other drugs by at least three routes: altering bacterial drug metabolism, modifying the enterohepatic circuit through regulation of bacterial β-glucuronidases, and modulating gut-barrier integrity [95,104,105].”
From Berberine-Drug Interactions: Mechanisms, Clinical Relevance and Risk Stratification-A Narrative Review (2026) · cites this paper as [105]
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“a growing body of evidence suggests that non-antibiotic drugs can also affect the composition of the gut microbiota, with potential implications for behavior, as well as the involvement of the microbiota in drug pharmacokinetics in general (Clarke et al., 2019).”
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“the microbiome is a general mediator of xenobiotic metabolism, capable of activating, inactivating or recycling numerous drugs [103,104,105].”
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“The oral compartment, where berberine reaches its highest concentrations of all, is unexamined and belongs in the same program [103,104,105,106,107,108].”
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“No study has yet measured the disposition of a co-administered drug before and after berberine while characterizing the microbiota in the same subjects, which is what would move Axis 4 from candidate to demonstrated.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Clarke, G., Sandhu, K. V., Griffin, B. T., Dinan, T. G., Cryan, J. F., & Hyland, N. P.
- Affiliations
- University College Cork (IE)
- Venue
- Pharmacological Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-04
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 198-224
- ISSN
- 0031-6997 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2925298688
- Semantic Scholar
- f47afa752c20787d780ef6b45f4821dd8a2cb5d0
- Cited by
- 319
- References
- 323
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 56 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 16
- FWCI
- 6.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Pharmacological Reviews (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Cork Open Research Archive (University College Cork, Ireland) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Cork Open Research Archive (University College Cork, Ireland) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI/12/RC/, 12/RC/2273, 12/RC/, SFI/12/RC/2273.)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
- Keywords
- gut microbiota, xenobiotic metabolism, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, microbiome-targeted therapy, drug discovery, drug absorption, microbial metabolites, adverse drug reactions, precision medicine
- MeSH terms
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Animals, Humans, Xenobiotics, Drug Discovery, Precision Medicine, Microbiota, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
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