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ReviewBiochemistry2022

Toward Elucidating the Human Gut Microbiota-Brain Axis: Molecules, Biochemistry, and Implications for Health and Diseases.

Yunjia Lai, Radhika Dhingra, Zhenfa Zhang, Louise M Ball, Mark J Zylka, Kun Lu

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In one paragraph

Review in Biochemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yunjia LaiDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7431, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1081-0897
Radhika DhingraDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7431, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Zhenfa ZhangDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7431, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Louise M BallDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7431, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Mark J ZylkaUNC Neuroscience Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Kun LuDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7431, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8125-2394
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

UNC-CH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &SUSCEPTIBILITYP30ES010126 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Stephanie Engel · 2001 to 2026
$36.3M
The UNC Chapel Hill Superfund Research Program (UNC-SRP)P42ES031007 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Rebecca Fry · 2020 to 2026
$22.2M
Environmental-use chemicals that target pathways linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disordersR35ES028366 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Mark J. Zylka · 2019 to 2026
$6.8M
Functional interaction between the gut microbiome and arsenic exposureR01ES024950 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LU, KUN · 2015 to 2019
$2.5M
The gut microbiome and glyphosate neurotoxicityR03ES032067 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LU, KUN · 2020 to 2021
$147k
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES010126NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES031007NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES024950NIEHS NIH HHS R03 ES032067NIEHS NIH HHS R35 ES028366
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, a substantial amount of data have supported an active role of gut microbiota in mediating mammalian brain function and health. Mining gut microbiota and their metabolites for neuroprotection is enticing but requires that the fundamental biochemical details underlying such microbiota-brain crosstalk be deciphered. While a neuronal gut-brain axis (through the vagus nerve) is not disputable, accumulating studies also point to a humoral route (via blood/lymphatic circulation) by which innumerable microbial molecular cues translocate from local gut epithelia to circulation with potentials to further cross the blood-brain barrier and reach the brain. In this Perspective, we review a realm of gut microbial molecules to evaluate their fate, function, and neuroactivities

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeMicrobiotaAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrainBrain-Gut AxisHumansMammals

Identifiers

PMID34910469
PMCPMC10857864
OpenAlexW4200059641

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