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A comprehensive perspective on the interaction between gut microbiota and COVID-19 vaccines

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The role of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in regulating stress responses, eating behavior, and nutritional state in anorexia nervosa: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Aging Gut-Brain Interactions: Pro-Inflammatory Gut Bacteria Are Elevated in Fecal Samples from Individuals Living with Alzheimer’s Dementia

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Effects of a diverse prebiotic fibre blend on inflammation, the gut microbiota and affective symptoms in metabolic syndrome: a pilot open-label randomised controlled trial

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The Gut Microbiome in Anxiety Disorders

Butler, M., Kittel‐Schneider, S., Wagner‐Skacel, J., Mörkl, S., & Clarke, G. A. (2025) · Current Psychiatry Reports · doi:10.1007/s11920-025-01604-w · Cited by 21 · see citing works

The microbiome-gut-brain axis in nutritional neuroscience

Schellekens, H., Ribeiro, G., Cuesta‐Marti, C., & Cryan, J. F. (2022) · Nutritional Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/1028415x.2022.2128007 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Hallmark of Psychological Distress in Women?

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Health benefits of medicinal plant natural products via microbiota-mediated different gut axes

Li, X., Liu, Y., Liu, N., Wu, H., Cong, K., Duan, L., Chen, T., & Zhang, J. (2025) · Pharmacological Research · doi:10.1016/j.phrs.2025.107730 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Infant gut microbiota and SCFAs mediate the association between early-life human milk microbiota and neurodevelopment

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Social Isolation and Breast Cancer

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Bacteria - derived short chain fatty acids restore sympathoadrenal responsiveness to hypoglycemia after antibiotic-induced gut microbiota depletion

LaGamma, E. F., Hu, F., Cruz, F. P., Bouchev, P., & Nankova, B. B. (2021) · Neurobiology of Stress · doi:10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100376 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Microbiota links to neural dynamics supporting threat processing

Hall, C. V., Harrison, B. J., Iyer, K. K., Savage, H. S., Zakrzewski, M., Simms, L. A., Radford‐Smith, G. L., Moran, R., & Cocchi, L. (2021) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.25682 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Identification of carbohydrate gene clusters obtained from in vitro fermentations as predictive biomarkers of prebiotic responses

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Associations of air PM2.5 level with gut microbiota in Chinese Han preschoolers and effect modification by oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism

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Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and Antidepressant Treatment

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Microbiome and Brain Development: A Tale of Two Systems

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Study of the Effect of Dietary Agavin Supplementation in Blood Parameters and Antioxidant Enzymes of Juvenile Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) under Stress Conditions

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Colonic Lactulose Fermentation Has No Impact on Glucagon-like Peptide-1 and Peptide-YY Secretion in Healthy Young Men

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Nutraceutical eicosapentaenoic acid in treatment-resistant depression: The psychoneuroimmunity and clinical implications

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Paeoniflorin ameliorates depressive behaviours by modulating microbiota–gut–brain axis functions

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Advancements in sensors for rapid detection of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs): Applications and limitations in gut health and the microbiota-gut-brain axis

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Vasovagal reactions following venepuncture result in aberrant stress-induced cortisol levels

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The gut-derived metabolites as mediators of the effect of healthy nutrition on the brain

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Acute stress enhances synaptic plasticity in male mice via a microbiota-dependent mechanism

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Disorders in the gut and liver are involved in depression contagion between isosexual post-stroke depression mice and the healthy cohabitors

Wang, H., Wang, B., Pan, M.-B., Jiang, S.-T., Wang, Y.-C., Zhu, Y., Zhang, Q., & Dong, Y. (2022) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2022.114246 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Long-Term Implicit Epigenetic Stress Information in the Enteric Nervous System and its Contribution to Developing and Perpetuating IBS

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Characterization of luminal contents from the fasted human proximal colon

Steigert, S., Brouwers, J., Verbeke, K., Vanuytsel, T., & Augustijns, P. (2024) · European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.ejps.2024.106821 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Colonic butyrate administration modulates fear memory but not the acute stress response in men: A randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Dalile, B., Fuchs, A., Torre, D. L., Vervliet, B., Oudenhove, L. V., & Verbeke, K. (2024) · Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.110939 · Cited by 39 · see citing works

Short-chain fatty acids: microbial metabolites that alleviate stress-induced brain–gut axis alterations

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The role of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in regulating stress responses, eating behavior, and nutritional state in anorexia nervosa: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Distinct Roles of Gut Microbial Genera and Circulating Propionate in Multi-Modal Stress ResponsesPreprint

Fuchs, A., Proost, S., Clevers, E., Derrien, M., Raes, J., Verbeke, K., Oudenhove, L. V., & Dalile, B. (2026) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-10908337/v1

The role of short-chain fatty acids in microbiota–gut–brain communication

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