Role of microbiota in the GUT-SKIN AXIS responses to outdoor stressors.

Abstract

Beside the respiratory tract, the skin and the gut represent the first defensive lines of our body against the external insults displaying many important biochemical features able to maintain the epithelial barrier integrity and to regulate the tissue immune responses. The human microbiome is essential in maintaining the tissue homeostasis and its dysregulation may lead to tissue conditions including inflammatory pathologies. Among all external insults, air pollutants have been shown to cause oxidative stress damage within the target tissues via an OxInflammatory response. Dysregulation of the gut microbiome (dysbiosis) by outdoor stressors, including air pollutants, may promote the exacerbation of the skin tissue damage via the interplay between the gut-skin axis. The intent of this review is to highlight the ability of exogenous stressors to modulate the human gut-skin axis via a redox regulated mechanism affecting the microbiome and therefore contributing to the development and aggravation of gut and skin conditions.