Gut microbiota and its relation to inflammation in patients with bipolar depression: a cross-sectional study

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<h4>Background: </h4> To explore the gut microbiota characteristics in depressed patients with bipolar disorder (BD) as well as the connection between the gut microbiota and inflammatory markers. Methods Totally 72 depressed BD patients and 16 healthy controls (HCs) were enrolled in the study. Blood and feces samples were taken from each subject. With the help of 16S-ribosomal RNA gene sequencing, the characteris...

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• Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
• Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
• Diet and metabolism studies
• Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
• Gut microbiota and health
• Tryptophan and brain disorders

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Literature Corpus work

7f298348-810e-59ea-b755-3a1d8406bd53

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-2723530/v1