Bioactive agents / Bioactive compounds

Phytotherapy Is the Use of Bioactive Agents / Bioactive Compounds Derived from Plant Kingdom, Such as Crude Extracts of Herbs or Active Principles Derived from Them
Bae et al. 2017 Phytotherapy Research
Tariq et al. 2017 Phytotherapy Research

Through Production of a Variety of Bioactive Substances, the Gut Microbiota Considerably Impact Different Body Organs
Salami 2021

Bioactive microbial products control processes between the host and microbe and between microbes
Zipperer et al. 2016 Nature 535: 511-516
Cohen et al. 2017a Nature 549: 48-53
Guo et al. 2017c Cell 168: 517-526
Bhattarai et al. 2018 Cell Host Microbe 23: 775-785
Buffie et al. 2019 Nature 517: 205–208

Disturbances in these interactions lead, for example, to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Morgan et al. 2012 Genome Biol. 13:R79

see also:
Bacterial metabolites / Microbial metabolites
Gut microbiota & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Microbial Genes