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Consumption of Fermented Milk Product With Probiotic Modulates Brain Activity

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Background & aims Changes in gut microbiota have been reported to alter signaling mechanisms, emotional behavior, and visceral nociceptive reflexes in rodents. However, alteration of the intestinal microbiota with antibiotics or probiotics has not been shown to produce these changes in humans. We investigated whether consumption of a fermented milk product with probiotic (FMPP) for 4 weeks by healthy women altered brain intrinsic connectivity or responses to emotional attention tasks. Methods Healthy women with no gastrointestinal or psychiatric symptoms were randomly assigned to groups given FMPP (n = 12), a nonfermented milk product (n = 11, controls), or no intervention (n = 13) twice daily for 4 weeks. The FMPP contained Bifidobacterium animalis subsp Lactis, Streptococcus thermophiles, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, and Lactococcus lactis subsp Lactis. Participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging before and after the intervention to measure brain response to an emotional faces attention task and resting brain activity. Multivariate and region of interest analyses were performed. Results FMPP intake was associated with reduced task-related response of a distributed functional network (49% cross-block covariance; P = .004) containing affective, viscerosensory, and somatosensory cortices. Alterations in intrinsic activity of resting brain indicated that ingestion of FMPP was associated with changes in midbrain connectivity, which could explain the observed differences in activity during the task. Conclusions Four-week intake of an FMPP by healthy women affected activity of brain regions that control central processing of emotion and sensation.

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Authors
Tillisch, K., Labus, J., Kilpatrick, L., Jiang, Z., Stains, J., Ebrat, B., Guyonnet, D., Legrain–Raspaud, S., Trotin, B., Naliboff, B., & Mayer, E. A.
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  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Danone (France) (FR)
Corresponding author
Tillisch, Kirsten
Venue
Gastroenterology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-06
Volume
144
Issue
7
Pages
1394-1401.e4
ISSN
0016-5085 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2135025386
Cited by
1,192
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71
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135.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Gastroenterology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Danone
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K01DK085133, R01DK048351)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Keywords
fermented milk, probiotics, resting-state brain activity, emotional face processing, emotional attention, gut-brain axis, gut microbiota, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus, somatosensory cortex, healthy women
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Bifidobacterium, Brain, Female, Humans, Lactobacillus, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Middle Aged, Lactococcus lactis, Treatment Outcome, Probiotics, Cultured Milk Products, Streptococcus thermophilus, Young Adult, Functional Neuroimaging

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