Microbiota–gut–brain axis and its therapeutic applications in neurodegenerative diseases

JS Loh, WQ Mak, LKS Tan, CX Ng, HH Chan… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
The human gastrointestinal tract is populated with a diverse microbial community. The vast
genetic and metabolic potential of the gut microbiome underpins its ubiquity in nearly every …

Small molecule metabolites: discovery of biomarkers and therapeutic targets

S Qiu, Y Cai, H Yao, C Lin, Y **e, S Tang… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic abnormalities lead to the dysfunction of metabolic pathways and metabolite
accumulation or deficiency which is well-recognized hallmarks of diseases. Metabolite …

The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

Akkermansia muciniphila: paradigm for next-generation beneficial microorganisms

PD Cani, C Depommier, M Derrien, A Everard… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Ever since Akkermansia muciniphila was discovered and characterized two decades ago,
numerous studies have shown that the lack or decreased abundance of this commensal …

Transforming the understanding of brain immunity

G Castellani, T Croese, JM Peralta Ramos, M Schwartz - Science, 2023 - science.org
Contemporary studies have completely changed the view of brain immunity from envisioning
the brain as isolated and inaccessible to peripheral immune cells to an organ in close …

Intestinal Akkermansia muciniphila predicts clinical response to PD-1 blockade in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

L Derosa, B Routy, AM Thomas, V Iebba, G Zalcman… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Aside from PD-L1 expression, biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)
in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are needed. In a previous retrospective analysis, we …

The gut microbiota–brain axis in neurological disorder

H Ullah, S Arbab, Y Tian, C Liu, Y Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The gut microbiota (GM) plays an important role in the physiology and pathology of the host.
Microbiota communicate with different organs of the organism by synthesizing hormones …

Microbiome and cancer

N Cullin, CA Antunes, R Straussman… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The human microbiome constitutes a complex multikingdom community that symbiotically
interacts with the host across multiple body sites. Host-microbiome interactions impact …

Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course

X Zhou, R Baumann, X Gao, M Mendoza, S Singh… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Changes in gut microbiota have been associated with several diseases. Here, the
International Multiple Sclerosis Microbiome Study (iMSMS) studied the gut microbiome of …

Microbiota-derived acetate enables the metabolic fitness of the brain innate immune system during health and disease

D Erny, N Dokalis, C Mezö, A Castoldi, O Mossad… - Cell Metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
As tissue macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia constitute the pivotal
immune cells of this organ. Microglial features are strongly dependent on environmental …