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ArticleNPJ biofilms and microbiomes2025

Microbiota-host crosstalk: the role of short-term dietary restriction in neurological and metabolic dysregulation.

Yanhong Li, Jianning Chen, Xiaolan Qi, Yan He, Guoze Wang, Limin Wei, Wei Hong

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Article in NPJ biofilms and microbiomes, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Yanhong Li *Key Laboratory of Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology of Guizhou Province, &Guizhou Provincial Engineering Research Center of Ecological Food Innovation, The Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
Jianning Chen *Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Xiaolan QiKey Laboratory of Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology of Guizhou Province, &Guizhou Provincial Engineering Research Center of Ecological Food Innovation, The Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
Yan HeKey Laboratory of Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology of Guizhou Province, &Guizhou Provincial Engineering Research Center of Ecological Food Innovation, The Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
Guoze WangKey Laboratory of Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology of Guizhou Province, &Guizhou Provincial Engineering Research Center of Ecological Food Innovation, The Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
Limin WeiChongqing Key Laboratory of High Active Traditional Chinese Drug Delivery System, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, Chongqing, China. pearl_0329@163.com.
Wei HongKey Laboratory of Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology of Guizhou Province, &Guizhou Provincial Engineering Research Center of Ecological Food Innovation, The Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China. hongwei_2015@hotmail.com.

Funding

Excellent Young Talents Plan of Guizhou Medical University (2022)101the 2022 Health Sciences and Technology program of Hangzhou: General Project Category A A20220084the Hangzhou Special Project for Biomedical and Health Industry 2022WJC064the National Natural Science Foundation of China 32260215the Science, Technology Fund of Guizhou Provincial Health Commission No. gzwkj2024-006
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Abstract

Excessive dieting (ED), a common weight-control strategy, often causes neurological and emotional disturbances, yet its gut-brain interaction mechanisms remain unclear. Employing a short-term dietary (SDR) adult male rabbit model, we found that SDR can induced cerebral cortex up-regulation of the immune-related genes (e.g., C1QC, SAA3) enriched in NF-kappa B signaling pathways, contrasted with down-regulation of sex hormone-related genes (e.g., PRLR, SPA17) implicated in metabolic homeostasis. Furthermore, dysregulated expression of metabolic genes (e.g., PPM1J, GALNT18) in the cecum of the SDR group interacted to impair the immune protection pathways related to intestinal mucosa. Then, SDR significantly increased the cecal Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio (from 3.38 to 5.57) and reduced microbial diversity. Specifically, beneficial bacteria involved in tryptophan metabolism and neurotransmitter synthesis (e.g., Bacteroidales_bacterium, Alistipes_indistinctus) decreased, whereas bile acid-metabolizing bacteria (e.g., Clostridium_sp._CAG:710, Ruminococcus_sp._Marseille-P6503) linked to increase energy metabolism. The top 20 genes from the brain-gut axis analysis (e.g., ITPR1, CAMK4, CDK5R1) were enriched in critical neural pathways like axon guidance, GABAergic synapse, and long-term potentiation. Notably, key neurodevelopmental genes (e.g., GPR37, GPX3) correlated with these microbial shifts, implicating oxidative stress, synaptic plasticity, and mitochondrial function in microbiota-host crosstalk. This study highlights a "microbial-metabolism-neural" axis in SDR, providing novel targets for future obesity intervention strategies.

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BacteriaGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHost Microbial InteractionsNervous System DiseasesAnimalsCecumCerebral CortexMaleRabbits

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