CellWell record HH-13212
Epigallocatechin gallate and lipid metabolism: intestinal fate, metabolite clusters, and regulatory mechanisms.
Fan J; Yun S; Qu Z; Liu Z; Gong Y
Current research in food science ยท 2026
In plain language
Review describes EGCG and its colonic microbiota-derived metabolites as coordinating AMPK-mediated lipogenesis and fatty acid oxidation, inducing lipid droplet-targeted lipophagy, and disrupting cholesterol micelle solubilization to inhibit intestinal cholesterol absorption.
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