18 August 2024
Brain Calling Bacteria
Psychological state is known to influence immunity by its impact on our essential microbiome – the vast community of microorganisms that share our body – but the details of how are unclear. This study in mice identifies nervous pathways that interact with intestinal glands that produce mucus which in turn influences the vigour of beneficial bacteria (the study looks at Lactobacillus)
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Hao Chang and colleagues
- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Cell, August 2024
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