Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: New Therapeutic Opportunities

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Disentangling type 2 diabetes and metformin treatment signatures in the human gut microbiota

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Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans

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Gut microbiome remodeling induces depressive-like behaviors through a pathway mediated by the host’s metabolism

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Gut microbiota are related to Parkinson's disease and clinical phenotype

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The neuroactive potential of the human gut microbiota in quality of life and depression

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Population-based metagenomics analysis reveals markers for gut microbiome composition and diversity

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Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria

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The microbiome-gut-brain axis during early life regulates the hippocampal serotonergic system in a sex-dependent manner

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Transferring the blues: Depression-associated gut microbiota induces neurobehavioural changes in the rat

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Causal relationships among the gut microbiome, short-chain fatty acids and metabolic diseases

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Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity

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Microbiota Transfer Therapy Alters Gut Ecosystem and Improves Gastrointestinal and Autism Symptoms: An Open-Label Study

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Association of brain amyloidosis with pro-inflammatory gut bacterial taxa and peripheral inflammation markers in cognitively impaired elderly

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Proton pump inhibitors affect the gut microbiome

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Gastric α-synuclein immunoreactive inclusions in Meissner's and Auerbach's plexuses in cases staged for Parkinson's disease-related brain pathology

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Psychobiotics: A novel class of psychotropic

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Colonic bacterial composition in Parkinson's disease

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The microbiome in early life: Implications for health outcomes

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Minireview: Gut microbiota: The neglected endocrine organ

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Consumption of fermented milk product with probiotic modulates brain activity

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Vagus Nerve as Modulator of the Brain–Gut Axis in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders

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Short chain fatty acids and gut microbiota differ between patients with Parkinson's disease and age-matched controls

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Stress &amp; the gut-brain axis: Regulation by the microbiome

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A randomised controlled trial of dietary improvement for adults with major depression (the ‘SMILES’ trial)

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Psychobiotics and the manipulation of bacteria–gut–brain signals

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Correlation between the human fecal microbiota and depression

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New evidences on the altered gut microbiota in autism spectrum disorders

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Next-generation probiotics: the spectrum from probiotics to live biotherapeutics

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Effect of Probiotic Supplementation on Cognitive Function and Metabolic Status in Alzheimer's Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blind and Controlled Trial

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A gut-brain neural circuit for nutrient sensory transduction

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Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

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Enterochromaffin cells are gut chemosensors that couple to sensory neural pathways

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Proton pump inhibitors alter the composition of the gut microbiota

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Gut Microbiota is Altered in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

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Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease medications have distinct signatures of the gut microbiome

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Safety assessment of probiotics for human use

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

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Bacteriophages of the Human Gut: The “Known Unknown” of the Microbiome

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A Neural Circuit for Gut-Induced Reward

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Kynurenine pathway metabolism and the microbiota-gut-brain axis

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The gut microbiome from patients with schizophrenia modulates the glutamate-glutamine-GABA cycle and schizophrenia-relevant behaviors in mice

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A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of multispecies probiotics on cognitive reactivity to sad mood

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Functional implications of microbial and viral gut metagenome changes in early stage L-DOPA-naive Parkinson's disease patients

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A Mediterranean-style dietary intervention supplemented with fish oil improves diet quality and mental health in people with depression: A randomized controlled trial (HELFIMED)

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Psychological stress and corticotropin-releasing hormone increase intestinal permeability in humans by a mast cell-dependent mechanism

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Short-Term Benefit From Oral Vancomycin Treatment of Regressive-Onset Autism

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Dietary patterns and depression risk: a meta-analysis

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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study of a probiotic in emotional symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome

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Possible association of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus in the gut microbiota of patients with major depressive disorder

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Anxiety, depression, and the microbiome: A role for gut peptides

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