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ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2025

Gut microbiota dysbiosis induces neuroinflammation in major depressive disorders: mechanisms targeting the gut-brain axis.

Jiayi Li, Bei Wan, Le Zhou, Xin Qian, Fushun Wang, Simeng Gu, Xianjun Ma, Jason H Huang

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Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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8 authors.

Jiayi LiDepartment of Psychology, Jiangsu University Medical School, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China.
Bei WanDepartment of Psychology, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Le ZhouDepartment of Psychology, Jiangsu University Medical School, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China.
Xin QianDepartment of Psychology, Jiangsu University Medical School, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China.
Fushun WangDepartment of Psychology, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Simeng GuDepartment of Psychology, Jiangsu University Medical School, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China.
Xianjun MaDepartment of Neurology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital of Lianyungang (Lianyungang Hospital of Traditional Medicine), Lianyungang, China.
Jason H HuangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor Scott and White Health Center, Temple, TX, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a kind of mental disorder with high mortality, suicide and relapse rates, and might be the world's leading cause of health burden by 2030. Growing evidence suggests that neuroinflammation is closely linked to depressive pathogenesis and suggests that MDD can be called a microglia disease. And activation of the P2X7R/NLRP3 signaling pathway in microglia is a key mechanism causing nerve damage. In addition, it is recently found that gut microbiota might initiate neuroinflammatory processes underlying MDD, and gut microbiota dysbiosis can be affected by sleep to ameliorate neuroinflammatory processes. In this paper, we reviewed recent advances about gut-brain axis interactions with neuroinflammation, which might shed light on the mechanisms and treatment of depression.

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astrocytesgut-brain axisMDDmicroglianeuroinflammation

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PMCPMC12490329

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