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Newest in this topic

  1. Evidence that the perinatal maternal microbiome mediates metabolite signaling programs that drive sex-specific microglial metabolic alterations and Alzheimer’s disease susceptibility 2026-10-23
  2. Change in gut microbiome precedes symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease and is correlated with amyloid-beta accumulation in the brain 2026-10-19
  3. The Gut–Liver–Brain Axis in Neurodegeneration: Unraveling Metabolic–Immune Crosstalk from Peripheral Sensing to Central Vulnerability 2026-10-08

Studies

273 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1995 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 13
  • Scientific reports 8
  • Nutrients 7
  • Brain, behavior, and immunity 6
  • Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 6

168 journals in all.

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  1. The ketogenic diet influences taxonomic and functional composition of the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NPJ biofilms and microbiomes 2019-01-23 Disease mechanisms

    The gut microbiota has been linked to various neurological disorders via the gut-brain axis.

  2. Gut microbiota in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neuroimmunology 2019-01-09 Disease mechanisms

    Gut dysbiosis, a primary factor behind various gastrointestinal disorders may also augment lipopolysaccharides, pro-inflammatory cytokines, T helper cells and monocytes causing increased intestinal and BBB permeability via microbiota-gut-brain axis.

  3. The intestinal microbiome and its relevance for functionality in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care 2019-01 Disease mechanisms

    Some observational studies have instead demonstrated that, in older individuals, frailty and Alzheimer-type dementia are associated with fecal microbiota dysbiosis, that is, reduced biodiversity and overexpression of pathobionts.

  4. The gut microbiota-derived metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide is elevated in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-12-22 Biomarkers

    These findings provide additional insight into gut microbial involvement in AD and add to the growing understanding of the gut-brain axis.

  5. Probiotic and selenium co-supplementation, and the effects on clinical, metabolic and genetic status in Alzheimer's disease: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2018-12-10 Clinical trials

    Overall, we found that probiotic and selenium co-supplementation for 12 weeks to patients with AD improved cognitive function and some metabolic profiles.

  6. Oxidative Stress and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2018-12-09 Disease mechanisms

    The gut-brain axis is increasingly recognized as an important pathway of communication and of physiological regulation, and gut microbiota seems to play a significant role in this mutual relationship.

  7. Exercise and probiotics attenuate the development of Alzheimer's disease in transgenic mice: Role of microbiome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2018-12-06 Prevention trials

    It has been suggested that exercise training and probiotic supplementation could decelerate the progress of functional and biochemical deterioration in APP/PS1 transgenic mice (APP/PS1 TG ).

  8. Gut Microbiota and Their Neuroinflammatory Implications in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-11-14 Disease mechanisms

    The bidirectional communication between the central nervous system (CNS) and the gut microbiota plays a pivotal role in human health.

  9. Altered bile acid profile associates with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease-An emerging role for gut microbiome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-15 Risk factors

    We report for the first time an association between altered BA profile, genetic variants implicated in AD, and cognitive changes in disease using a large multicenter study.

  10. Altered bile acid profile in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: Relationship to neuroimaging and CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-15 Biomarkers

    This is the first study to show serum-based BA metabolites are associated with "A/T/N" AD biomarkers, providing further support for a role of BA pathways in AD pathophysiology.

  11. The intestinal microbiome and Alzheimer's disease: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Animal models and experimental medicine 2018-09-25 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an increasingly common neurodegenerative disease.

  12. Gut microbiota, cognitive frailty and dementia in older individuals: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2018-08-29 Disease mechanisms

    Cognitive frailty, defined as the coexistence of mild cognitive impairment symptoms and physical frailty phenotype in older persons, is increasingly considered the main geriatric condition predisposing to dementia.

  13. Does Severity of Alzheimer's Disease Contribute to Its Responsiveness to Modifying Gut Microbiota? A Double Blind Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-08-15 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with cognitive dysfunction.

  14. Unhealthy gut, unhealthy brain: The role of the intestinal microbiota in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2018-08-14 Disease mechanisms

    The number of bacterial cells living within the human body is approximately equal to, or greater than, the total number of human cells.

  15. The Gut Microbiome Alterations and Inflammation-Driven Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease-a Critical Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2018-06-23 Disease mechanisms

    One of the most important scientific discoveries of recent years was the disclosure that the intestinal microflora takes part in bidirectional communication between the gut and the brain.

  16. Abnormal gut microbiota composition contributes to cognitive dysfunction in SAMP8 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging 2018-06-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by cognitive dysfunction and aging is an important predisposing factor; however, the pathological and therapeutic mechanisms are not fully understood.

  17. Changes of Colonic Bacterial Composition in Parkinson's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    In recent years evidence has emerged that neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are strongly associated with the microbiome composition in the gut.

  18. Interplay among gut microbiota, intestinal mucosal barrier and enteric neuro-immune system: a common path to neurodegenerative diseases?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-05-24 Disease mechanisms

    Neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis, are often associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders.

  19. Ketogenic diet enhances neurovascular function with altered gut microbiome in young healthy mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-04-27 Disease mechanisms

    Neurovascular integrity, including cerebral blood flow (CBF) and blood-brain barrier (BBB) function, plays a major role in determining cognitive capability.

  20. Frailty and the gut

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver 2018-03-16 Disease mechanisms

    Frailty, which is a syndrome that encompasses losses in physical, psychological and social domains, is responsible for enhanced vulnerability to endogenous and/or exogenous stressors.

  21. Neuroinflammation, Gut Microbiome, and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2018-03-09 Costs and economics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops insidiously and causes dementia finally.

  22. SLAB51 Probiotic Formulation Activates SIRT1 Pathway Promoting Antioxidant and Neuroprotective Effects in an AD Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2018-02-28 Disease mechanisms

    The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional communication network functionally linking the gut and the central nervous system (CNS).

  23. Lactobacilli and bifidobacteria ameliorate memory and learning deficits and oxidative stress in β-amyloid (1-42) injected rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme 2018-02-20 Disease mechanisms

    The gastrointestinal microbiota affects brain function, including memory and learning.

  24. Parkinson's disease from the gut

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain research 2018-01-31 Disease mechanisms

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition associated with tremor, rigidity, dementia, and gastrointestinal symptoms such as constipation, nausea and vomiting.

  25. Gut-brain Axis: Role of Lipids in the Regulation of Inflammation, Pain and CNS Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Current medicinal chemistry 2018-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    The human gut is a composite anaerobic environment with a large, diverse and dynamic enteric microbiota, represented by more than 100 trillion microorganisms, including at least 1000 distinct species.

  26. Gut Microbiota is Altered in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Risk factors

    Previous studies suggest that gut microbiota is associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and depression.

  27. Microbiota Signaling Pathways that Influence Neurologic Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2018-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Though seemingly distinct and autonomous, emerging evidence suggests there is a bidirectional interaction between the intestinal microbiota and the brain.

  28. Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota modifications: The long way between preclinical studies and clinical evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2017-12-09 Disease mechanisms

    Recent studies have suggested the role of an infectious component in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. Prebiotic Effect of Fructooligosaccharides from Morinda officinalis on Alzheimer's Disease in Rodent Models by Targeting the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-12-08 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota influences the central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  30. Protective roles of intestinal microbiota derived short chain fatty acids in Alzheimer's disease-type beta-amyloid neuropathological mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2017-11-14 Disease mechanisms

    Our studies support the hypothesis that intestinal microbiota may help protect against AD, in part, by supporting the generation of select SCFAs, which interfere with the formation of toxic soluble Aβ aggregates.

  31. Therapeutic potential of Bifidobacterium breve strain A1 for preventing cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-10-18 Disease mechanisms

    It has previously been shown that the consumption of probiotics may have beneficial effects not only on peripheral tissues but also on the central nervous system and behavior via the microbiota-gut-brain axis, raising the possibility that treatment with probiotics could be an effective therapeutic strategy for managing neurodegenerative disorders.

  32. Microbiota-Brain-Gut Axis and Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2017-10-17 Disease mechanisms

    The purposes of this review were as follows: first, to provide an overview of the gut microbiota and its interactions with the gut and the central nervous system (the microbiota-gut-brain axis) in health, second, to review the relevance of this axis to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, and, finally, to assess the potential for microbiota-targeted therapies.

  33. Gut microbiota changes in the extreme decades of human life: a focus on centenarians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS 2017-10-14 Disease mechanisms

    The gut microbiota (GM) is a complex, evolutionarily molded ecological system, which contributes to a variety of physiological functions.

  34. The Gut Microbial Metabolite Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Is Present in Human Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nutrients 2017-09-22 Disease mechanisms

    -oxide (TMAO) is a small organic molecule, derived from the intestinal and hepatic metabolism of dietary choline and carnitine.

  35. Recent evidence suggests the commensal microbiome regulates host immunity and influences brain function; findings that have ramifications for neurodegenerative diseases.

  36. Microbiome-Derived Lipopolysaccharide Enriched in the Perinuclear Region of Alzheimer’s Disease Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in Immunology 2017-09-04 Disease mechanisms

    Abundant clinical, epidemiological, imaging, genetic, molecular and pathophysiological data together indicate that there occur an unusual inflammatory reaction and a disruption of the innate-immune signaling system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain.

  37. Recent developments in understanding the role of the gut microbiota in brain health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2017-08-02 Disease mechanisms

    There is a growing appreciation of the role of the gut microbiota in all aspects of health and disease, including brain health.

  38. Anti-Alzheimer Properties of Probiotic, Lactobacillus plantarum MTCC 1325 in Alzheimer's Disease induced Albino Rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR 2017-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    The study revealed that, L. plantarum MTCC1325 might have anti-Alzheimer properties against D-Galactose induced Alzheimer's disease.

  39. Secretory Products of the Human GI Tract Microbiome and Their Potential Impact on Alzheimer's Disease (AD): Detection of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in AD Hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2017-07-11 Disease mechanisms

    Although the potential contribution of the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiome to human health, aging, and disease is becoming increasingly acknowledged, the molecular mechanics and signaling pathways of just how this is accomplished is not well-understood.

  40. Microbiome, probiotics and neurodegenerative diseases: deciphering the gut brain axis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS 2017-06-22 Disease mechanisms

    The gut microbiota is essential to health and has recently become a target for live bacterial cell biotherapies for various chronic diseases including metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity and neurodegenerative disease.

  41. Intestinal microbial dysbiosis aggravates the progression of Alzheimer's disease in Drosophila

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2017-06-20 Disease mechanisms

    Neuroinflammation caused by local deposits of Aβ 42 in the brain is key for the pathogenesis and progression of Alzheimer's disease.

  42. Microbiota modulation counteracts Alzheimer's disease progression influencing neuronal proteolysis and gut hormones plasma levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-05-25 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota has a proven role in regulating multiple neuro-chemical pathways through the highly interconnected gut-brain axis.

  43. Microbiota-gut-brain axis and the central nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Oncotarget 2017-05-10 Disease mechanisms

    The gut and brain form the gut-brain axis through bidirectional nervous, endocrine, and immune communications.

  44. The gut microbiome in human neurological disease: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-03-20 Disease mechanisms

    Almost half the cells and 1% of the unique genes found in our bodies are human, the rest are from microbes, predominantly bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses.

  45. Reduction of Abeta amyloid pathology in APPPS1 transgenic mice in the absence of gut microbiota

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-02-08 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in the western world, however there is no cure available for this devastating neurodegenerative disorder.

  46. Gut microbiota: Implications in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2017-02-07 Disease mechanisms

    Gut microbiota (GM) can influence various neurological outcomes, like cognition, learning, and memory.

  47. Interactions between the microbiota, immune and nervous systems in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2017-01-16 Risk factors

    The diverse collection of microorganisms that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract, collectively called the gut microbiota, profoundly influences many aspects of host physiology, including nutrient metabolism, resistance to infection and immune system development.

  48. Altered Gut Microbiome Composition and Tryptic Activity of the 5xFAD Alzheimer's Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    The regulation of physiological gut functions such as peristalsis or secretion of digestive enzymes by the central nervous system via the Nervus vagus is well known.

  49. Altered Gut Microbiota in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    The topic of gut microbiota is currently attracting considerable interest as a potential factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  50. Alzheimer's Disease Histological and Behavioral Manifestations in Transgenic Mice Correlate with Specific Gut Microbiome State

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative brain disease and is the most common form of dementia.

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