278: Bacteria Sing The Blues

TWiM explores the relationship between the gut microbiome and depressive symptoms, and how purine nucleotides act as adjuvants to antibiotics.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

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• Gut microbiota and depressive symptoms one and two (Nat Commun )
• Microbiome influences depression (Phys.org)
• Gut bacteria and depression (Med Press)
• Mice behaving badly (TWiM 131)
• Gut microbiome in ASD (Front Cell Inf Micro)
• Transferring the blues (J Psych Res)
• Nucleotides as adjuvants to antibiotics (mBio)

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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