Gut Microbiota Brings a Novel Way to Illuminate Mechanisms of Natural Products in vivo
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Poor bioavailability and undefined major/direct targets are two major obstacles for herbal medicines and natural products (NPs) to elucidate their precise mechanisms in vivo. Gut microbiota is an important bridge between eukayotic body and environment, which can interact with a majority of medicines with poor bioavailability and mediate their in vivo pharmacological activities. There are two main modes through which gut microbiota may mediate the pharmacological effects of NPs. First, gut microbiota catabolizes the NPs in herbal medicines into secondary metabolites with higher bioavialability and/or higher activity, facilitating the NPs enter circulation and exert beneficial impact at the pathological spot. Second, herbal medicines and NPs can favorably shift the compositional structure of gut microbiota, thereby performing remote functions to diseased organs/tissues via the systemic impaction of gut microbiota. In this review, the potential pathways were summarized through which gut microbes facilitate the pharmacological functions of herbal medicines and NPs and highlight the significance of gut microbiota in clarifying the in vivo mechanisms of herbal medicines and NPs.
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81673663), and CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS 2016-I2M-3-015)
Peng Guo, Chong-ming Wu. Gut Microbiota Brings a Novel Way to Illuminate Mechanisms of Natural Products in vivo[J]. Chinese Herbal Medicines (CHM),2017,9(4):300-306
