Andrea Proaño-Vasco, Theresa Baumeister, Amira Metwaly, Sandra Reitmeier, Karin Kleigrewe, Chen Meng, Michael Gigl, Thomas Engleitner, Rupert Öllinger, Roland Rad, Katja Steiger, Akanksha Anand, Julia Strangmann, Robert Thimme, Roland M Schmid, Timothy C Wang, Michael Quante
Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is mostly prevalent in industrialized countries and has been associated with obesity, commonly linked with a diet rich in fat and refined sugars containing high fructose concentrations. In meta-organisms, dietary components are digested and metabolized by the host and its gut microbiota. Fructose has been shown to induce proliferation and cell growth in pancreas and colon cancer cell lines and also alter the gut microbiota. In a previous study with the L2-IL-1B mouse model, we showed that a high-fat diet (HFD) accelerated EAC progression from its precursor lesion Barrett's esophagus (BE) through changes in the gut microbiota...
November 25, 2021: Microorganisms