Metabolic tinkering by the gut microbiome: Implications for brain development and function

Gut Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Selkrig, Joel ^d,e   Wong, Peiyan ^a,c   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a,b,c   Pettersson, Sven ^e,f  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Glucose; Gut microbiota; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Metabolism; Microbiota gut brain axis; Neurodevelopment; Short chain fatty acids; hydroxybutyrate

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CITRATE LYASE; DNA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROPIONIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ALICYCLOBACILLUS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COLON; DIETARY FIBER; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EVOLUTIONARY TINKERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LIPOGENESIS; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OBESITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84901392235     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.28681     Document Type: Review

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