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. 2017 Dec 20;8:1882. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01882

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Short-chain fatty acid (SCFA)-receptor-mediated pathways and their effects on host energy metabolism in peripheral tissues. Gut microbes can ferment dietary fiber into SCFAs, which induce an array of G-protein coupled receptor-mediated signaling pathways that are essentially implicated in host energy homeostasis in multiple tissues.