[HTML][HTML] Anxiety, depression, and the microbiome: a role for gut peptides

G Lach, H Schellekens, TG Dinan, JF Cryan - Neurotherapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
The complex bidirectional communication between the gut and the brain is finely
orchestrated by different systems, including the endocrine, immune, autonomic, and enteric …

Synaptic plasticity and depression: new insights from stress and rapid-acting antidepressants

RS Duman, GK Aghajanian, G Sanacora, JH Krystal - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Depression is a common, devastating illness. Current pharmacotherapies help many
patients, but high rates of a partial response or no response, and the delayed onset of the …

[HTML][HTML] Adolescent obesity: diet quality, psychosocial health, and cardiometabolic risk factors

LD Ruiz, ML Zuelch, SM Dimitratos, RE Scherr - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity is a multifaceted chronic condition with several contributing causes, including
biological risk factors, socioeconomic status, health literacy, and numerous environmental …

Childhood and adolescent adversity and cardiometabolic outcomes: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

SF Suglia, KC Koenen, R Boynton-Jarrett, PS Chan… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Adverse experiences in childhood and adolescence, defined as subjectively perceived
threats to the safety or security of the child's bodily integrity, family, or social structures, are …

[HTML][HTML] Ghrelin

TD Müller, R Nogueiras, ML Andermann… - Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The gastrointestinal peptide hormone ghrelin was discovered in 1999 as the
endogenous ligand of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor. Increasing evidence …

The brain reward circuitry in mood disorders

SJ Russo, EJ Nestler - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Mood disorders are common and debilitating conditions characterized in part by profound
deficits in reward-related behavioural domains. A recent literature has identified important …

[HTML][HTML] The homeostatic force of ghrelin

S Yanagi, T Sato, K Kangawa, M Nakazato - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Ghrelin, a gastric-derived acylated peptide, regulates energy homeostasis by transmitting
information about peripheral nutritional status to the brain, and is essential for protecting …

A standardized protocol for repeated social defeat stress in mice

SA Golden, HE Covington III, O Berton, SJ Russo - Nature protocols, 2011 - nature.com
A major impediment to novel drug development has been the paucity of animal models that
accurately reflect symptoms of affective disorders. In animal models, prolonged social stress …

Neuropeptides and the microbiota-gut-brain axis

P Holzer, A Farzi - Microbial endocrinology: the microbiota-gut-brain axis …, 2014 - Springer
Neuropeptides are important mediators both within the nervous system and between
neurons and other cell types. Neuropeptides such as substance P, calcitonin gene-related …

Nutritional aspects of depression

UE Lang, C Beglinger, N Schweinfurth… - Cellular Physiology and …, 2015 - karger.com
Several nutrition, food and dietary compounds have been suggested to be involved in the
onset and maintenance of depressive disorders and in the severity of depressive symptoms …