Kynurenine Pathway of Tryptophan Metabolism: Regulatory and Functional Aspects

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An Interaction between Kynurenine and the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Can Generate Regulatory T Cells

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Tryptophan and the immune response

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Tryptophan Catabolism in Cancer: Beyond IDO and Tryptophan Depletion

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Integrated multi-omics reveals distinct maternal and neonatal gut microbial and metabolic signatures associated with small for gestational age status

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Sex-specific association of IDO1 gene with schizophrenia and imbalanced levels of cytokines and neuroactive kynurenine metabolites in relapsed patients

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The antiretroviral drug emtricitabine increases kynurenine: tryptophan ratio, aryl hydrocarbon receptor activation, and cellular senescence in female mice

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Behavioural phase transitions in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria , are related to changes in the gut bacterial composition

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Emerging roles of IL4I1 in regulating tumor immunity and ferroptosis

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Research Progress of Metabolic Reprogramming in Childhood Acute Leukemia

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Kynurenine and Related Metabolites in St. Johnʼs Wort (Hypericum perforatum)

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Tryptophan metabolism in embryo implantation and decidualization

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Potential regulation of kynurenine pathway metabolism by the galantamine–memantine combination in rheumatologic diseases: A hypothesis-driven review

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Efferocytosis: Signaling Pathways and New Therapeutic Strategies for Diseases

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The Role of Kynurenine and 5-Hydroxytryptophan in Modulating Microbiota and Their Implications in Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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Tryptophan Metabolism at the Crossroads of Immunity, Barrier Function, and the Microbiome in Atopic Dermatitis

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Tryptophan metabolism as a key integrator within the gut-lung-brain axis: Mechanistic insights and nutritional therapeutic strategies for inflammatory and neuropsychiatric disorders

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Characterization of a fish-specific immunoglobulin-like domain-containing protein (Igldcp) in zebrafish (Danio rerio) induced after nodavirus infection

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Kynurenines and aerobic exercise capacity in chronic kidney disease: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

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Biological Basis for the Formation of Suicidal Behavior: A Review

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Physiological and pathophysiological effects of L-tryptophan’s metabolites on the brain and immunity – a challenge for drug development

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External stress, formaldehyde, and schizophrenia: a new mouse model for mental illness research

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Tryptophan metabolites are altered when Caco-2 cells are exposed to simulated microgravity

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Tryptophan-induced transcriptomic changes in the European Seabass are highly dependent on neuroendocrine-immune conditions

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Omics Study of Ovarian Malignancies: From Urine Metabolomic Profile to Minimally Invasive MicroRNA Markers

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Metabolic abnormalities of the cortico‑striato‑thalamo‑cortical circuit of rats with tic disorder

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Depression and Anxiety After Radiation-Induced Brain Injury: A Review of Current Research Progress

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Natural Killer Cells in the Eye

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Metagenomic profiling of gut microbiome: associating their role with the advancement of diabetic nephropathy

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Time course profiling of the kynurenine pathway activity in a pig model of crescentic glomerulonephritis

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Dynamic immune dysregulation in severe mental illness: Exaggerated innate and attenuated adaptive immune responses following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

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Association between dietary B vitamins intake and age-specific blood pressure: A cross-sectional study in American adults

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L-Tryptophan Adsorbed on Au and Ag Nanostructured Substrates: A SERS Study

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Higher Circulating Kynurenine Levels Linked to Higher Risk of Sarcopenia in Older Adults: A Cohort Study and UK Biobank Analysis

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Inflammatory mechanisms underlying early Alzheimer’s disease pathology: evidence from the aging rhesus macaque brain

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Design, synthesis and anti-Parkinson's disease bioactivity evaluation of isoquinoline derivatives as potent IDO1/TDO dual inhibitors

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Psychopharmakologisches Repurposing bei postviralen Erschöpfungssyndromen: Von der neurobiologischen Rationale zur klinischen Anwendung

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Biomarkers of oxidative damage as a tool to investigate frailty syndrome in older women

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Fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease: Mechanisms, assessment, and management strategies

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Targeting tryptophan metabolism in breast cancer immunotherapy: Recent advances and future prospects

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Metabolic Brain Disorders: Prodromes, Symptoms, and Syndromes

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Diet, mycobiome and virome: from mucosal immunity to gut–brain axis regulation

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Domino Effect of the Kynurenine Pathway: Systemic Homeostasis, Metabolic Crosstalk, and Therapeutic Potential

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Targeted stool metabolomics suggests exploratory catecholamine- and tryptophan-linked metabolic features in autism spectrum disorder

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Microbiome‐Derived Metabolite Networks in Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Fatty Liver Disease: Mechanistic Integration of Gut‐Liver Axis Signaling and Therapeutic Targeting

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Cerebral gray matter volumes in long-term post-COVID patients are associated with peripheral kynurenine pathway metabolites and the severity of depressive symptoms

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Tracing NAD+ metabolism uncovers adaptive coordination between host and microbiome during colitis

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Cannabinoid receptor-mediated modulation of the gut-brain axis under chronic stress: Neuroinflammatory mechanisms, microbial metabolites, and sexual dimorphism

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Dietary Tryptophan Allocation in Depression: Serotonin–Kynurenine Balance, Microbial Indole Pathways, and Inflammatory Phenotypes

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Glycine conjugates of indole-3-carboxylates are aryl hydrocarbon receptor ligands

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Cataract GWAS meta-analysis and multi-omics Mendelian randomisation inform disease mechanisms and candidate target prioritisation

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The Expression Profile of mRNA and tRNA Genes in Splenocytes and Neutrophils after In Vivo Delivery of Antitumor Short Hairpin RNA of Indoleamine 2,3- Dioxygenase

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Depression in the elderly and psychobiotics

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Lehninger’s Scheme and Conclusions Need to Be Defined More Exactly

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Tryptophan metabolism-related gene expression patterns: unveiling prognostic insights and immune landscapes in uveal melanoma

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The development of an ingestible biosensor for the characterization of gut metabolites related to major depressive disorder: hypothesis and theory

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Circulating biomarkers of upstream kynurenine pathway and brain-derived neurotropic factor in the diagnosis of type 2 and gestational diabetes mellitus with depression

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The Role of Tryptophan Metabolites and Short-Chain Fatty Acids in the Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Diseases

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Neurobiological basis of suicidality

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The Origin and Metabolism of Tryptophan

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Tryptophan-Derived Metabolites and Glutamate Dynamics in Fatal Insulin Poisoning: Mendelian Randomization of Human Cohorts and Experimental Validation in Rat Models

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Metabolic shifts in plasma amino acids and related metabolites in response to SGLT2 inhibition and hyperglycemia in type 1 diabetes

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Participation of kynurenine pathway metabolites in Trypanosoma cruzi infection of human placenta

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Warum hyperbare Sauerstofftherapie bei Patienten mit dentalen mitochondrialen Blockaden nicht wirksam ist

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Macrophage Polarization Is Decisive for Chronic Bacterial Infection-Induced Carcinogenesis

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Label-free detection of thalassemia and other ROS impairing diseases

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Alcohol Consumption and Tryptophan Metabolism Among People with HIV Prior to Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation: The Uganda ARCH Cohort Study

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Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae – ‘COVID Long Hauler’

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Unipolar depression and urinary metabolites: diagnostic use in clinical practice

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Two Photon Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Reduced Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide in Brain Research

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Serum Kynurenic Acid and Kynurenine Are Negatively Associated with the Risk of Adult Moyamoya Disease

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Inadequate Niacin Intake Disrupts Growth and Retinol Homeostasis Resulting in Higher Liver and Lower Serum Retinol Concentrations in Male Rats

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Gender-Based Effects of Chronic Nicotine Administration on Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis and Indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase Activity in Rats

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Kynurenines are altered in the brain in depression, in a subgroup dependent manner: Implications for targeted treatment approaches

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Kynurenine and NAD+ Pathways are Associated with Macrophage Content and Polarization in Carotid PlaquesPreprint

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