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ArticleBrain sciences2025

Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Depressive Symptoms, Sleep Quality, and Modulation of Gut Microbiota and Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

S Rehan Ahmad, Abdullah M AlShahrani, Anupriya Kumari

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Article in Brain sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 5 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

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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Laboratory-selected, probioticFrontiers in nutrition · 2026
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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

3 authors.

S Rehan AhmadHiralal Mazumdar Memorial College for Women, West Bengal State University, Kolkata 700035, West Bengal, India.ORCID 0000-0003-0796-5238
Abdullah M AlShahraniDepartment of Basic Medical Science, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Khamis Mushait Campus, King Khalid University (KKU), Abha 62561, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9433-1913
Anupriya KumariSchool of Education, Adamas University, Kolkata 700126, West Bengal, India.ORCID 0009-0007-5414-106X

Funding

Deanship of Research and Graduate Studies at King Khalid University RGP.2/604/45
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

circadian rhythmsgut–sleep–brain axismental healthmicrobiomeprobioticssleep

Identifiers

PMID40722352
PMCPMC12293967

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