Observational studyNature communications2024
Immunoregulatory role of the gut microbiota in inflammatory depression.
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148 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 181 citations in OpenAlex.
- Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acid (SCFA) profiles as a biomarker of gut-brain axis dysfunction: A meta-analysis for the SCFA signature in major depression.Biomedical journal · 2026Pooled it
- Alterations of short-chain fatty acids in depression and effects of probiotics/prebiotics interventions on levels and clinical symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Fecal microbiota transplantation from psychiatric patients to mice - systematic review of methodologies and a call for standardization.Translational psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- The microbiota-gut-brain-epigenome axis as a novel therapeutic target for decoding postpartum depression.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Gut microbiota-dependent mechanisms and efficacy of natural polysaccharides in multitarget antidepressant therapy: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Association between gut microbiota and allergic rhinitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PeerJ · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation in alleviating depressive symptoms: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Gut Microbiota Changes Following Short-Term Probiotic Supplementation in Older Home Enteral Nutrition Patients.Nutrients · 2026Trial
- The relationships between depression, inflammation and self-reported disease activity in IBD and their impact on healthcare usage.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Trial
- GutMIND: A multi-cohort machine learning framework for integrative characteristics of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in neuropsychiatric disorders.Gut microbes · 2026Article
- Maternal gut microbiota mediates prenatal stress-induced fetal blood‒brain barrier dysfunction.Gut microbes · 2026Article
- HLA-B27-associated gut microbiota and amino acid perturbations promote ankylosing spondylitis through M1 macrophage activation.Gut microbes · 2026Article
- Depression in chronic kidney disease and dialysis: A psychonephrology narrative review.World journal of nephrology · 2026Review
- Amelioration of Listeria monocytogenes infection in mice by live and pasteurized Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and its cell-free supernatant and its association with strengthened gut barrier and downregulated TLR4/NF-κB pathway.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Article
- Exploring the hypothetical role ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Gut Microbiota and Metabolites: Orchestrating Depression Pathogenesis Through the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis's Neural, Immune, and Metabolic Routes.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Disrupted Stromal-Epithelial Crosstalk Impairs Gut Barrier in Depression.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Gut mucosal barrier: the frontline of bidirectional regulation of the gut-X axis.Medical review (2021) · 2026Review
- Microbiota-Driven microglia reprogramming reverses depressive-like behaviors through Peripheral-to-Central immune crosstalk.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Bidirectional communication between the gut microbiota and the central nervous system.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
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Abstract
Inflammatory depression is a treatment-resistant subtype of depression. A causal role of the gut microbiota as a source of low-grade inflammation remains unclear. Here, as part of an observational trial, we first analyze the gut microbiota composition in the stool, inflammatory factors and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in plasma, and inflammatory and permeability markers in the intestinal mucosa of patients with inflammatory depression (ChiCTR1900025175). Gut microbiota of patients with inflammatory depression exhibits higher Bacteroides and lower Clostridium, with an increase in SCFA-producing species with abnormal butanoate metabolism. We then perform fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and probiotic supplementation in animal experiments to determine the causal role of the gut microbiota in inflammatory depression. After FMT, the gut microbiota of the inflammatory depression group shows increased peripheral and central inflammatory factors and intestinal mucosal permeability in recipient mice with depressive and anxiety-like behaviors. Clostridium butyricum administration normalizes the gut microbiota, decreases inflammatory factors, and displays antidepressant-like effects in a mouse model of inflammatory depression. These findings suggest that inflammatory processes derived from the gut microbiota can be involved in neuroinflammation of inflammatory depression.
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