Moody microbes or fecal phrenology: What do we know about the microbiota-gut-brain axis?

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Forsythe, Paul ^a,b   Kunze, Wolfgang ^a,b   Bienenstock, John ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Enteric Nervous system; Germ free; Microbiome; Vagus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; RODENT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; FECES; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INNERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION;

EID: 84963773930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0604-8     Document Type: Article

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