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Gut microbiota / Evidence-based microbiome knowledge (incl. AI chat)
Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

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L- cells

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L- cells is the name for intermediate large vesicles.

The identifying hormone (historically) is

Examples of colocalization of hormones and/or their gene transcripts (most of recent data is from mouse):

Bacterial metabolite indole modulates incretin secretion from intestinal enteroendocrine L cells
Chimerel et al. 2014 Cell Rep 9(4): 1202-1208
Dietary Gut Microbial Metabolites, Short-chain Fatty Acids, and Host Metabolic Regulation
Kasubuchi et al. 2015 Nutrients 7: 2839-2849
Review
Diversity of enteroendocrine cells investigated at cellular and subcellular levels: the need for a new classification scheme.
Fothergill & Furness 2018 Histochem Cell Biol 150(6): 693-702
Review
Free-fatty acid receptors in enteroendocrine cells
Lu et al. 2018 Endocrinology 159(7): 2826-2835
Review
Overlap of endocrine hormone expression in the mouse intestine revealed by transcriptional profiling and flow cytometry
Habib et al. 2012 Endocrinology 153: 3054-3065
Single-cell RNA-sequencing reveals a distinct population of proglucagon-expressing cells specific to the mouse upper small intestine
Glass et al. 2017 Mol Metab 6: 1296-1303
The gut as a sensory organ
Furness et al. 2013a Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 10: 729-740
Review

12/16/2025