Summary
PROJECT SUMMARY Understanding the role of environmental factors including signals derived from the diet and microbiota is key to improving therapeutic and intervention strategies for gastrointestinal disorders including inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and inflammation-associated colorectal cancer (CRC). Dietary fiber can exert immunoregulatory effects through microbial fermentation products including short chain fatty acids (SCFAs). However, the influence of dietary fiber on most microbiota-derived metabolites and their role in immunoregulation remain unclear. In new preliminary studies, I i
