Intestinal Inflammation as a Dysbiosis of Energy Procurement: New Insights into an Old Topic
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) coincides with profound shifts in microbiota and host metabolic energy supply and demand.The gastrointestinal epithelium is anatomically positioned to provide a selective barrier between the anaerobic luminal microbiota and host lamina propria, with the microbiota and epithelium participating in an intricate energy