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ReviewMolecular neurobiology2025

Microbiome Gut-Brain-Axis: Impact on Brain Development and Mental Health.

Yasmin N Ramadan, Saleh F Alqifari, Khaled Alshehri, Amirah Alhowiti, Hyder Mirghani, Tariq Alrasheed, Faisal Aljohani, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Helal F Hetta

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Review in Molecular neurobiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline 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

9 authors.

Yasmin N RamadanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, 71515, Egypt. yasmine_mohamed@pharm.aun.edu.eg.
Saleh F AlqifariDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tabuk, 71491, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0288-065X
Khaled AlshehriDepartment of Internal Medicine (Neurology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-7277
Amirah AlhowitiDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-5507-8958
Hyder MirghaniDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5817-6194
Tariq AlrasheedDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-8239-5061
Faisal AljohaniDivision of Medicine and Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-4678-8203
Abdulaziz AlghamdiDepartment of Medicine, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine in Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-0807-3779
Helal F HettaDivision of Microbiology, Immunology and Biotechnology, Department of Natural Products and Alternative Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tabuk, 71491, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-7304

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current discovery that the gut microbiome, which contains roughly 100 trillion microbes, affects health and disease has catalyzed a boom in multidisciplinary research efforts focused on understanding this relationship. Also, it is commonly demonstrated that the gut and the CNS are closely related in a bidirectional pathway. A balanced gut microbiome is essential for regular brain activities and emotional responses. On the other hand, the CNS regulates the majority of GI physiology. Any disruption in this bidirectional pathway led to a progression of health problems in both directions, neurological and gastrointestinal diseases. In this review, we hope to shed light on the complicated connections of the microbiome-gut-brain axis and the critical roles of gut microbiome in the early development of the brain in order to get a deeper knowledge of microbiome-mediated pathological conditions and management options through rebalancing of gut microbiome.

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BrainGastrointestinal MicrobiomeMental HealthAnimalsHumansBrain developmentGut-brain axisGut microbiome

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PMID40234288
PMCPMC12289773

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