ArticleAging2020
Red light exaggerated sepsis-induced learning impairments and anxiety-like behaviors.
Article in Aging, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gut microbiota and sepsis-associated encephalopathy: pathogenesis and precision therapies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Targeted spleen modulation: a novel strategy for next-generation disease immunotherapy.Theranostics · 2025Review
- The role of the peripheral system dysfunction in the pathogenesis of sepsis-associated encephalopathy.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- Reversal of the detrimental effects of social isolation on ischemic cerebral injury and stroke-associated pneumonia by inhibiting small intestinalJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023Article
- Effects of red light on sleep and mood in healthy subjects and individuals with insomnia disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Effects of Fermented Huauzontle, a Prehispanic Mexican Pseudocereal.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Gut Microbial Dysbiosis and Cognitive Impairment in Bipolar Disorder: Current Evidence.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- RhANP attenuates endotoxin-derived cognitive dysfunction through subdiaphragmatic vagus nerve-mediated gut microbiota-brain axis.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2021Article
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- Erratum issued
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Light exerts critical non-visual effects on a multitude of physiological processes and behaviors, including sleep-wake behavior and cognitive function. In this study, we investigated the effects of continued exposure to different colors of light on cognitive function after sepsis in old mice. We found that exposure to red light, but not green light, exaggerated learning impairments and anxiety-like behaviors after sepsis. Red light also induced remarkable splenomegaly and altered the diversity and composition of the fecal microbiota. Pseudo germ-free mice transplanted with fecal bacteria from septic mice exposed to red light developed the same behavioral defects and splenomegaly as their donors. Intriguingly, splenectomy and subdiaphragmatic vagotomy reversed the learning impairments and anxiety-like behaviors resulting from red light exposure after sepsis. After subdiaphragmatic vagotomy, no differences in behavior or spleen size were observed among pseudo germ-free mice transplanted with fecal bacteria from septic mice exposed to different colors of light. Our results suggested that red light exposure after sepsis in old mice causes gut microbiota dysfunction, thus stimulating signaling through the subdiaphragmatic vagus nerve that induces splenomegaly and aggravates learning impairments and anxiety-like behaviors.
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