Intestinal organoids: A thriving and powerful tool for investigating dietary nutrients-intestinal homeostasis axis

• Published in: Food research international Vol. 172; p. 113109
• Main Authors: Zhang, Duoduo, Zhou, Xingtao, Zhou, Wengan, Cui, Steve W., Nie, Shaoping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2023
• Subjects: Dietary nutrients; Intestinal homeostasis; Intestinal organoids; Precise nutrition; Intestinal homeostasis; Precise nutrition; Intestinal organoids; Dietary nutrients
• ISSN: 0963-9969; 1873-7145
• DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2023.113109

[Display omitted] •Dietary nutrients are essential for maintaining the proper functions of our body.•Intestine is pivotal for the absorption and transportation of nutrients.•Intestinal organoid (IO) reproduces the characteristics of original intestine.•IO is a thriving and powerful tool for investigating the diet-intestine axis.•IO has broad prospects in precise nutrition. Dietary nutrients regulate intestinal homeostasis through a variety of complex mechanisms, to affect the host health. Nowadays, various models have been used to investigate the dietary nutrients-intestinal homeostasis axis. Different from the limited flux in animal experiments, limited intestinal cell types and distorted simulation of intestinal environment of 2D cells, intestinal organoid (IO) is a 3D culture system of mini-gut with various intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and producibility of intestinal biology. Therefore, IOs is a powerful tool to evaluate dietary nutrients-intestinal homeostasis interaction. This review summarized the application of IOs in the investigation of mechanisms for macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins and fats) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) affecting intestinal homeostasis directly or indirectly (polysaccharides-intestinal bacteria, proteins-amino acids). In addition, new perspectives of IOs in combination with advanced biological techniques and their applications in precise nutrition were proposed.