The Role of the Gut Microbiome and the Hepatic Axis in the Pathogenesis of Metabolic Syndrome and Therapeutics

Figure 5

Imbalance in the microbiome that was found in the microbiome of cirrhosis. Faecal loads of liver cirrhosis patients showed proliferation in populations of pathogenic bacteria, such as Enterobacteriaceae and Streptococci, and depletion of Firmicutes leading to decreased short-chain fatty acid production (SCFA) [89].