The role of inflammation and microglial activation in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders

GZ Réus, GR Fries, L Stertz, M Badawy, IC Passos… - Neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
Psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder (BD) and
schizophrenia, affect a significant percentage of the world population. These disorders are …

Neuroinflammation and depression: microglia activation, extracellular microvesicles and microRNA dysregulation

D Brites, A Fernandes - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Patients with chronic inflammation are often associated with the emergence of depression
symptoms, while diagnosed depressed patients show increased levels of circulating …

The S100B story: from biomarker to active factor in neural injury

F Michetti, N D'Ambrosi, A Toesca… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
S100B is a Ca2+‐binding protein mainly concentrated in astrocytes. Its levels in biological
fluids (cerebrospinal fluid, peripheral and cord blood, urine, saliva, amniotic fluid) are …

Pathogenesis of depression: insights from human and rodent studies

C Ménard, GE Hodes, SJ Russo - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) will affect one out of every five people in their lifetime and
is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Nevertheless, mechanisms associated with the …

Chronic stress followed by social isolation promotes depressive-like behaviour, alters microglial and astrocyte biology and reduces hippocampal neurogenesis in …

A Du Preez, D Onorato, I Eiben, K Musaelyan… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Unpredictable chronic mild stress (UCMS) is one of the most commonly used, robust and
translatable models for studying the neurobiological basis of major depression. Although the …

Neuroimmune mechanisms of depression

GE Hodes, V Kana, C Menard, M Merad… - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Current diagnosis of depression is based solely on behavioral symptomatology. The
available US Food and Drug Administration–approved treatments for depression have come …

Neuropathology of stress

PJ Lucassen, J Pruessner, N Sousa, OFX Almeida… - Acta …, 2014 - Springer
Environmental challenges are part of daily life for any individual. In fact, stress appears to be
increasingly present in our modern, and demanding, industrialized society. Virtually every …

Probiotic gut effect prevents the chronic psychological stress‐induced brain activity abnormality in mice

A Ait‐Belgnaoui, A Colom, V Braniste… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background A probiotic formulation (L actobacillus helveticus R0052 and B ifidobacterium
longum R0175 combination, Probio'Stick®) displays anxiolytic‐like activity and reduces …

Adult neurogenesis, glia, and the extracellular matrix

EC Cope, E Gould - Cell Stem Cell, 2019 - cell.com
In the adult mammalian hippocampus, new neurons arise from stem and progenitor cell
division, in a process known as adult neurogenesis. Adult-generated neurons are sensitive …

Multiple roles for astrocytes as effectors of cytokines and inflammatory mediators

MV Sofroniew - The Neuroscientist, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Astrocytes are increasingly recognized as exerting complex functions essential for normal
neural activity in the healthy central nervous system (CNS). Because astrocytes also …