This Week in Microbiology

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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Links for this episode:

  • 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)

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