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ReviewCell reports. Medicine2025

The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis: Therapeutic implications.

Kenneth J O'Riordan, Gerard M Moloney, Lily Keane, Gerard Clarke, John F Cryan

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Review in Cell reports. Medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 227 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

227 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

5 authors.

Kenneth J O'RiordanAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland.
Gerard M MoloneyAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland; Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Lily KeaneAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland; Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Gerard ClarkeAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland; Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
John F CryanAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland; Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Electronic address: j.cryan@ucc.ie.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The microbiota-gut-brain axis has major implications for human health including gastrointestinal physiology, brain function, and behavior. The immune system represents a key pathway of communication along this axis with the microbiome implicated in neuroinflammation in health and disease. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms as to how the gut microbiota interacts with the brain, focusing on innate and adaptive immunity that are often disrupted in gut-brain axis disorders. We also consider the implications of these observations and how they can be advanced by interdisciplinary research. Leveraging an increased understanding of how these interactions regulate immunity has the potential to usher in a new era of precision neuropsychiatric clinical interventions for psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurological disorders.

Indexed as

BrainGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAdaptive ImmunityAnimalsHumansImmunity, Innateadaptive immunitygut microbiotainnate immunitymicrobiome-gut-immune-brain axis

Identifiers

PMID40054458
PMCPMC11970326

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