Arora Karan, Green Miranda, Prakash Satya
Biomedical Technology and Cell Therapy Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2020 Dec 14;8:537847. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.537847. eCollection 2020.
The Microbiome has generated significant attention for its impacts not only on gastrointestinal health, but also on signaling pathways of the enteric and central nervous system via the microbiome gut-brain axis. In light of this, microbiome modulation may be an effective therapeutic strategy for treating or mitigating many somatic and neural pathologies, including neurodegenerative disorders. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that interferes with cerebral function by progressively impairing memory, thinking and learning through the continuous depletion of neurons. Although its etiopathogenesis remains uncertain, recent literature endorses the hypothesis that probiotic, prebiotic and synbiotic supplementation alters AD-like symptoms and improves many of its associated disease biomarkers. Alternatively, a dysfunctional microbiota impairs the gut epithelial barrier by inducing chronic gastric inflammation, culminating in neuroinflammation and accelerating AD progression. The findings in this review suggest that probiotics, prebiotics or synbiotics have potential as novel biological prophylactics in treatment of AD, due to their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, their ability to improve cognition and metabolic activity, as well as their capacity of producing essential metabolites for gut and brain barrier permeability.
微生物群不仅因其对胃肠道健康的影响,还因其通过微生物群-肠-脑轴对肠道和中枢神经系统信号通路的影响而备受关注。鉴于此,调节微生物群可能是治疗或减轻许多躯体和神经疾病(包括神经退行性疾病)的有效治疗策略。阿尔茨海默病(AD)是一种慢性神经退行性疾病,通过神经元的持续消耗逐渐损害记忆、思维和学习能力,从而干扰脑功能。尽管其发病机制尚不确定,但最近的文献支持这样一种假说,即补充益生菌、益生元和合生元可以改变类AD症状,并改善许多相关疾病的生物标志物。或者,功能失调的微生物群通过引发慢性胃炎症来损害肠道上皮屏障,最终导致神经炎症并加速AD的进展。这篇综述中的研究结果表明,益生菌、益生元或合生元因其抗炎和抗氧化特性、改善认知和代谢活动的能力以及产生维持肠道和脑屏障通透性所需代谢产物的能力,在AD治疗中具有作为新型生物预防剂的潜力。
Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2020-12-14
Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2023-11
J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2024-9-28
F1000Res. 2019-5-21
Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2020
Cell. 2019-8-22
Mol Psychiatry. 2019-4-12