Background: The incidence and recurrence rate of nephrolithiasis have been increasing annually. Recent evidence highlights a close association between the composition and function of the gut microbiome and the occurrence and recurrence of kidney stones. We performed a multi-omic study to investig...

Tripterygium wilfordii is a vine used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from the family Celastraceae. The active ingredient celastrol is a friedelane-type pentacyclic triterpenoid, with a putative role as an anti-tumor, immunosuppression, and obesity agent. Here we reported a referen...