School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
Zhong Li Science and Technology Limited Company, Beijing, China.
Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Jun 29;10(3):e0032922. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00329-22. Epub 2022 May 18.
The gut microbiota is important in the occurrence and development of obesity. It can not only via its metabolites, but also through microbiota-gut-brain-liver interactions, directly or indirectly, influence obesity. Quinoa, known as one kind of pseudocereals and weight loss food supplements, has been high-profile for its high nutritional value and broad applications. In this context, we produced high-fat diet-induced (HFD) obese mouse models and assessed the efficacy of quinoa with saponin and quinoa without saponin on obesity. We explored the potential therapeutic mechanisms of quinoa using methods such as 16S rRNA, Western blotting, Immunohistochemical (IHC). Our results indicated that quinoa can improve the obese symptoms significantly on HFD mice, as well as aberrant glucose and lipid metabolism. Further analyses suggest that quinoa can regulate microbiota in the colon and have predominantly regulation on , and , meanwhile can decrease the / ratio and the abundance of . Contemporaneously, quinoa can upregulate the expression of TGR5 in the colon and brain, as well as GLP-1 in the colon, liver and brain. while downregulate the expression of TLR4 in the colon and liver, as well as markers of ER stress and oxidative stress in livers and serums. Beyond this, tight junctional proteins in colons and brains are also increased in response to quinoa. Therefore, quinoa can effectively reduce obesity and may possibly exert through microbiota-gut-brain-liver interaction mechanisms. Gut microbiota has been investigated extensively, as a driver of obesity as well as a therapeutic target. Studies of its mechanisms are predominantly microbiota-gut-brain axis or microbiota-gut-liver axis. Recent studies have shown that there is an important correlation between the gut-brain-liver axis and the energy balance of the body. Our research focus on microbiota-gut-brain-liver axis, as well as influences of quinoa in intestinal microbiota. We extend this study to the interaction between microbiota and brains, and the result shows obvious differences in the composition of the microbiome between the HFD group and others. These observations infer that besides the neurotransmitter and related receptors, microbiota itself may be a mediator for regulating bidirectional communication, along the gut-brain-liver axis. Taken together, these results also provide strong evidence for widening the domain of applicability of quinoa.
肠道微生物群在肥胖的发生和发展中起着重要作用。它不仅可以通过其代谢产物,还可以通过微生物群-肠道-大脑-肝脏相互作用,直接或间接地影响肥胖。藜麦被称为一种伪谷物和减肥食品补充剂,因其高营养价值和广泛的应用而备受关注。在此背景下,我们生产了高脂肪饮食诱导(HFD)肥胖小鼠模型,并评估了藜麦皂苷和无皂苷对肥胖的疗效。我们使用 16S rRNA、Western blot、免疫组织化学(IHC)等方法探索了藜麦的潜在治疗机制。我们的研究结果表明,藜麦可以显著改善 HFD 小鼠的肥胖症状,以及异常的葡萄糖和脂质代谢。进一步的分析表明,藜麦可以调节结肠中的微生物群,主要调节 、 和 ,同时可以降低 / 比值和 的丰度。同时,藜麦可以上调结肠和大脑中的 TGR5 以及结肠、肝脏和大脑中的 GLP-1 的表达,同时下调结肠和肝脏中的 TLR4 以及肝脏和血清中的 ER 应激和氧化应激标志物的表达。除此之外,结肠和大脑中的紧密连接蛋白也因藜麦而增加。因此,藜麦可以有效减轻肥胖,可能通过微生物群-肠道-大脑-肝脏相互作用机制发挥作用。肠道微生物群作为肥胖的驱动因素和治疗靶点已经得到了广泛的研究。对其机制的研究主要集中在微生物群-肠道-大脑轴或微生物群-肠道-肝脏轴。最近的研究表明,肠道-大脑-肝脏轴与身体的能量平衡之间存在重要的相关性。我们的研究重点是微生物群-肠道-大脑-肝脏轴,以及藜麦对肠道微生物群的影响。我们将这项研究扩展到微生物群与大脑之间的相互作用,结果显示 HFD 组和其他组之间的微生物组组成存在明显差异。这些观察结果推断,除了神经递质和相关受体外,微生物群本身可能是调节沿着肠道-大脑-肝脏轴双向通讯的介质。综上所述,这些结果也为拓宽藜麦的应用领域提供了有力证据。