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ReviewBiomolecules2025

The Role of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Other Metabolic Diseases.

Eliane Münte, Phillipp Hartmann

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Review in Biomolecules, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Eliane MünteDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Phillipp HartmannDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Funding

San Diego Digestive Diseases Research CenterP30DK120515 · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2025 to 2025
$1.2M
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases #PNC22-159963German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic DiseasesNIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK120515NIH HHS 1K12HD105271-04A1NIH HHS 1KL2TR001444-09A1NIH HHS 1P30DK120515-04A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With its increasing prevalence, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has emerged as a major global public health concern over the past few decades. Growing evidence has proposed the microbiota-derived metabolites short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) as a potential factor in the pathophysiology of MASLD and related metabolic conditions, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). By influencing key pathways involved in energy homeostasis, insulin sensitivity, and inflammation, SCFAs play an important role in gut microbiota composition, intestinal barrier function, immune modulation, and direct metabolic signaling. Furthermore, recent animal and human studies on therapeutic strategies targeting SCFAs demonstrate their potential for treating these metabolic disorders.

Indexed as

Fatty Acids, VolatileFatty LiverMetabolic DiseasesNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseAnimalsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansInsulin ResistanceObesityFatty Acids, Volatilegut microbiotaMASLDobesitySCFAsT2DM

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PMID40305160
PMCPMC12025087

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