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Decreased abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila after adrenocorticotropic hormone therapy in patients with West syndrome
2019-07-10
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background West syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of infancy. The high degree of effectiveness of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) therapy indicates that the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis may be involved in WS, and there is substantial evidence that the gut microbiota (GM) communicates with the brain via the HPA axis. The aims of this study were to determ...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b1c16833-2f3c-514a-8b16-27ec35bd9e9b
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.11198/v1
