Butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) produced by gut bacteria in the colon, serves as a critical energy source for colonocytes. Gut microbiota and its primary metabolite, butyrate, have been ...

As butyrate enemas may be beneficial in treating colonic inflammation, we investigated if butyrate promotes this effect by acting on proinflammatory cytokine expression. METHODS Intestinal biopsy ...

Shandong Key Laboratory of Healthy Food Resources Exploration and Creation, School of Food Sciences and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China ...