Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

In a striking display of trans-kingdom symbiosis, gut bacteria cooperate with their animal
hosts to regulate the development and function of the immune, metabolic and nervous …

I. INTRODUCTION 1877 II. STUDYING THE... 1881 III. MICROBIOTA-GUT-BRAIN AXIS...
1907 IV. PATHWAYS OF COMMUNICATION 1911 V. MICROBIOTA AND SYNAPTIC... 1929 …

Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial Gram-negative pathogen that often displays
multidrug resistance. Discovering new antibiotics against A. baumannii has proven …

The human gut microbiota has received considerable interest in the recent years and our
knowledge of the inhabitant species and their potential applications is increased particularly …

Importance Evidence of gut microbiota perturbations has accumulated for multiple
psychiatric disorders, with microbiota signatures proposed as potential biomarkers …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by persistent depressed mood, loss of
interest or pleasure in previously enjoyable activities, recurrent thoughts of death, and …

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), the main metabolites produced by bacterial fermentation of
dietary fibre in the gastrointestinal tract, are speculated to have a key role in microbiota–gut …

The gut-brain axis plays an important role in maintaining homeostasis. Many intrinsic and
extrinsic factors influence signaling along this axis, modulating the function of both the …

Growing evidence indicates the community of microorganisms throughout the
gastrointestinal tract,(ie, gut microbiota), is associated with anxiety and depressive …