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This book collects multidisciplinary research articles focused on Clostridioides difficile infection. The contributions collected here shed some light on grey areas of our knowledge of Clostridioides difficile, including regional Clostridioides difficile phenotypic and genotypic patterns, the Clostridioides difficile infection clinical course and the mortality rate in different settings and patient case-mix, the levels of Clostridioides difficile toxins in patients' sera, and novel, promising therapeutic approaches. This collection serves as a valuable reservoir of knowledge for scientists and researchers in the field of infectious diseases.

Clostridioides difficile infection --- co–morbidities --- mortality --- malignancy --- outcome --- risk factors --- C. difficile infection --- molecular analysis --- toxin production --- antibiotic resistance --- microbiome --- C. difficile --- hamsters --- bovine immunoglobulins --- 16S rRNA --- next generation sequencing --- Clostridioides difficile --- Charlson comorbidity index --- Child–Pugh score --- Clostridioides difficile associated disease --- CDI --- nonalcoholic fatty liver disease --- NAFLD --- NASH --- recurrent disease --- antibacterial --- Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile --- peptidomimetic --- triazole --- baicalin --- gut dysbiosis --- mouse model --- spores --- anti-spore --- spore germination --- nanomaterial --- teicoplanin --- spore --- antibiotics --- multi-step algorithm --- multiplex “real-time” PCR --- PCR capillary-based electrophoresis ribotyping --- Clostridium difficile --- TcdA --- TcdB --- toxin --- toxemia --- plasma --- method --- quantification --- CDI severity --- n/a --- co-morbidities --- Child-Pugh score --- multiplex "real-time" PCR

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Women and men have probably never been concerned as much by their health as during this COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, lifestyle habits continue to be promoted as allies for daily prevention against diseases. This is valid also for metabolic diseases, among which many affect the liver and are risk factors for aggravating the disease course of COVID-19. In fact, liver diseases are currently a major global health problem. There is a huge range of liver diseases and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic hepatic condition, which in some patients progresses to cirrhosis and liver cancer. Currently, substantial efforts are being made to better understand NAFLD, especially, because there is no U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved pharmacological therapy. To explore this disease, metabolomics is the most recently developed omics technology after genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Metabolomics is the large-scale analysis of molecules, known as metabolites that are intermediate or end products of metabolism found within cells, tissues, and biofluids. This technology has a very high potential to identify biomarker candidates for the future development of new therapeutics. The book features articles that address metabolomics technology and its use to document different liver functions and dysfunctions, with a major focus on NAFLD.

Medicine --- nonalcoholic fatty liver disease --- nonalcoholic steatohepatitis --- Fibrosis --- Liver biopsy --- Genomics --- Metabolomics --- Proteomics --- Transcriptomics --- nicotinamide --- NAFLD --- steatosis --- heat stress --- primary mouse hepatocytes --- metabolic profile --- GC-MS --- multivariate statistical analysis --- arachidonic acid --- docosahexaenoic acid --- inflammation --- fibrosis --- lipidomics --- mass spectrometry --- in vitro --- HepaRG --- sodium saccharin --- reference toxicants --- de novo lipogenesis --- carbohydrate response element-binding protein --- ChREBP --- diabetes --- glucose production --- glycogen --- glycolysis --- glycogen storage disease type I --- hexosamine --- pentose phosphate pathway --- acupuncture --- imflammation --- lipid metabolism --- oxidative stress --- metabolomics quantitative profiling --- 1H-NMR spectroscopy --- liver --- bile acids --- metabolomics --- rat plasma --- tandem mass spectrometry --- liquid chromatography --- acetaminophen --- hepatotoxicity --- biomarker --- premalignant --- alcoholic liver disease --- cholestasis --- cirrhosis --- NAFL --- NASH --- standard operating procedures --- urine --- blood --- feces --- tissue --- cells --- liver function --- nonalcoholic fatty liver --- liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry --- nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy --- metabolic pathway --- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease --- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis --- transcription factors --- metabolic stress --- lipid homeostasis --- glucose homeostasis

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Women and men have probably never been concerned as much by their health as during this COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, lifestyle habits continue to be promoted as allies for daily prevention against diseases. This is valid also for metabolic diseases, among which many affect the liver and are risk factors for aggravating the disease course of COVID-19. In fact, liver diseases are currently a major global health problem. There is a huge range of liver diseases and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic hepatic condition, which in some patients progresses to cirrhosis and liver cancer. Currently, substantial efforts are being made to better understand NAFLD, especially, because there is no U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved pharmacological therapy. To explore this disease, metabolomics is the most recently developed omics technology after genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Metabolomics is the large-scale analysis of molecules, known as metabolites that are intermediate or end products of metabolism found within cells, tissues, and biofluids. This technology has a very high potential to identify biomarker candidates for the future development of new therapeutics. The book features articles that address metabolomics technology and its use to document different liver functions and dysfunctions, with a major focus on NAFLD.

Medicine --- nonalcoholic fatty liver disease --- nonalcoholic steatohepatitis --- Fibrosis --- Liver biopsy --- Genomics --- Metabolomics --- Proteomics --- Transcriptomics --- nicotinamide --- NAFLD --- steatosis --- heat stress --- primary mouse hepatocytes --- metabolic profile --- GC-MS --- multivariate statistical analysis --- arachidonic acid --- docosahexaenoic acid --- inflammation --- fibrosis --- lipidomics --- mass spectrometry --- in vitro --- HepaRG --- sodium saccharin --- reference toxicants --- de novo lipogenesis --- carbohydrate response element-binding protein --- ChREBP --- diabetes --- glucose production --- glycogen --- glycolysis --- glycogen storage disease type I --- hexosamine --- pentose phosphate pathway --- acupuncture --- imflammation --- lipid metabolism --- oxidative stress --- metabolomics quantitative profiling --- 1H-NMR spectroscopy --- liver --- bile acids --- metabolomics --- rat plasma --- tandem mass spectrometry --- liquid chromatography --- acetaminophen --- hepatotoxicity --- biomarker --- premalignant --- alcoholic liver disease --- cholestasis --- cirrhosis --- NAFL --- NASH --- standard operating procedures --- urine --- blood --- feces --- tissue --- cells --- liver function --- nonalcoholic fatty liver --- liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry --- nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy --- metabolic pathway --- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease --- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis --- transcription factors --- metabolic stress --- lipid homeostasis --- glucose homeostasis

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Mounting evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship between metabolism and inflammation. Molecular crosstalk between these processes occurs at different levels with the participation of nuclear receptors, including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs). There are three PPAR isotypes, α, β/δ, and γ, which modulate metabolic and inflammatory pathways, making them key for the control of cellular, organ, and systemic processes. PPAR activity is governed by fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives, and by drugs used in clinics (glitazones and fibrates). The study of PPAR action, also modulated by post-translational modifications, has enabled extraordinary advances in the understanding of the multifaceted roles of these receptors in metabolism, energy homeostasis, and inflammation both in health and disease. This Special Issue of IJMS includes a broad range of basic and translational article, both original research and reviews, focused on the latest developments in the regulation of metabolic and/or inflammatory processes by PPARs in all organs and the microbiomes of different vertebrate species.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Biochemistry --- nuclear receptor --- gene transcription --- inflammation --- molecular docking --- PPARβ/δ --- lung --- pulmonary artery --- GW0742 --- GSK3787 --- docking --- lipopolysaccharide (LPS) --- PPARγ ligand --- coumarin --- fluorescent ligand --- screening --- crystal structure --- PPAR --- atopic dermatitis --- psoriasis --- metabolic reprograming --- glucose --- fatty acids --- mycobacteria --- M. tuberculosis --- M. leprae --- PPARs --- lipid droplets --- metabolic alterations --- hepatic damage --- nuclear factors --- pharmacological targets --- AMPK --- GDF15 --- insulin resistance --- type 2 diabetes mellitus --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) --- real-time PCR --- ELISA --- immunohistochemistry --- signaling pathway --- PPAR gamma --- brain --- neural stem cells --- infection --- neuroinflammation --- HIV --- Zika --- cytomegalovirus --- neurogenesis --- microglia --- liver damage --- toll-like receptor 4 --- P2Y2 receptor --- metabolic syndrome --- resveratrol --- quercetin --- PPARα --- peroxisome --- β-oxidation --- PPRE --- ligand --- coregulator --- micronutrients --- PPARα knockout --- adipose tissue --- browning --- lipid metabolism --- depression --- PPARg --- neuropathology --- corticotropin releasing hormone --- norepinephrine --- subgenual prefrontal cortex --- amygdala --- nucleus accumbens --- common carotid artery occlusion --- electroretinography --- fibroblast growth factor 21 --- pemafibrate --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha --- retinal ischemia --- skeletal muscle --- substrate metabolism --- nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) --- sex dimorphism --- lipidomics --- hepatic sex-biased gene expression --- PPARγ --- pulmonary arterial hypertension --- TGFβ --- vascular injury --- proliferation --- kidney fibrosis --- pattern-recognition receptors --- phagocytosis --- nitric oxide synthase --- fenofibrate --- oleoylethanolamide --- palmitoylethanolamide --- cancer --- immunity --- obesity --- diabetes --- miRNA --- DNA methylation --- histone modification --- peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor --- fatty acid oxidation --- doping control --- regulatory T cells --- exercise --- nuclear receptors --- nutrigenomics --- energy homeostasis --- dairy animals --- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) --- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) --- bezafibrate --- fenofibric acid --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor --- dual/pan agonist --- X-ray crystallography --- n/a

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Mounting evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship between metabolism and inflammation. Molecular crosstalk between these processes occurs at different levels with the participation of nuclear receptors, including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs). There are three PPAR isotypes, α, β/δ, and γ, which modulate metabolic and inflammatory pathways, making them key for the control of cellular, organ, and systemic processes. PPAR activity is governed by fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives, and by drugs used in clinics (glitazones and fibrates). The study of PPAR action, also modulated by post-translational modifications, has enabled extraordinary advances in the understanding of the multifaceted roles of these receptors in metabolism, energy homeostasis, and inflammation both in health and disease. This Special Issue of IJMS includes a broad range of basic and translational article, both original research and reviews, focused on the latest developments in the regulation of metabolic and/or inflammatory processes by PPARs in all organs and the microbiomes of different vertebrate species.

nuclear receptor --- gene transcription --- inflammation --- molecular docking --- PPARβ/δ --- lung --- pulmonary artery --- GW0742 --- GSK3787 --- docking --- lipopolysaccharide (LPS) --- PPARγ ligand --- coumarin --- fluorescent ligand --- screening --- crystal structure --- PPAR --- atopic dermatitis --- psoriasis --- metabolic reprograming --- glucose --- fatty acids --- mycobacteria --- M. tuberculosis --- M. leprae --- PPARs --- lipid droplets --- metabolic alterations --- hepatic damage --- nuclear factors --- pharmacological targets --- AMPK --- GDF15 --- insulin resistance --- type 2 diabetes mellitus --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) --- real-time PCR --- ELISA --- immunohistochemistry --- signaling pathway --- PPAR gamma --- brain --- neural stem cells --- infection --- neuroinflammation --- HIV --- Zika --- cytomegalovirus --- neurogenesis --- microglia --- liver damage --- toll-like receptor 4 --- P2Y2 receptor --- metabolic syndrome --- resveratrol --- quercetin --- PPARα --- peroxisome --- β-oxidation --- PPRE --- ligand --- coregulator --- micronutrients --- PPARα knockout --- adipose tissue --- browning --- lipid metabolism --- depression --- PPARg --- neuropathology --- corticotropin releasing hormone --- norepinephrine --- subgenual prefrontal cortex --- amygdala --- nucleus accumbens --- common carotid artery occlusion --- electroretinography --- fibroblast growth factor 21 --- pemafibrate --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha --- retinal ischemia --- skeletal muscle --- substrate metabolism --- nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) --- sex dimorphism --- lipidomics --- hepatic sex-biased gene expression --- PPARγ --- pulmonary arterial hypertension --- TGFβ --- vascular injury --- proliferation --- kidney fibrosis --- pattern-recognition receptors --- phagocytosis --- nitric oxide synthase --- fenofibrate --- oleoylethanolamide --- palmitoylethanolamide --- cancer --- immunity --- obesity --- diabetes --- miRNA --- DNA methylation --- histone modification --- peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor --- fatty acid oxidation --- doping control --- regulatory T cells --- exercise --- nuclear receptors --- nutrigenomics --- energy homeostasis --- dairy animals --- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) --- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) --- bezafibrate --- fenofibric acid --- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor --- dual/pan agonist --- X-ray crystallography --- n/a