TRPV4 ion channel, a receptor for stretching and microinflammation, was highly expressed in the epithelium in constipated patients from the small intestine to the rectum and was associated with decreased stool frequency and duration of disease. When colon epithelial cell lines and bacteria were co-cultured, bacteria was divided into those that transiently decreased, those that remained constant, and those that increased TRPV4 expression. ; K.oxytoca, E.faecalis, and E.coli increased TRPV4 expression; the bacteria themselves did not increase the expression, but culture components did. Butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid, and TNF-α inhibitors suppressed increased expression, and constipation symptoms were associated with the ratio of E.faecalis in the colonic mucosa of constipated patients, suggesting that maintaining butyrate-producing bacteria and suppressing the TNF-α pathway may prevent or treat chronic constipation.