Background: Influenza A virus (IAV) causes a wide spectrum of clinical outcomes, from mild symptoms to life-threatening pneumonia. Recent studies have highlighted the role of the upper respiratory tract (URT) microbiota in modulating immune responses and influencing disease sever...
In pre-disposed individuals, a reprogramming of the hepatic lipid metabolism may support liver cancer initiation. We conducted a high-resolution mass spectrometry based untargeted lipidomics analysis of pre-diagnostic serum samples from a nested case-control study (219 liver cancer cases and 219 ...
SCFAs are the main microbial fermentation products from dietary fibers in colon and play a key role in keeping healthy in the whole-body. However, differences of SCFAs concentration in the serum and colon samples collected from rats had attracted few attentions. Here, we optimized the extract and...