Microbial lysate upregulates host oxytocin

Neuropeptide hormone oxytocin has roles in social bonding, energy metabolism, and wound healing contributing to good physical, mental and social health. It was previously shown that feeding of a human commensal microbe Lactobacillus reuteri (L. reuteri) is sufficient to up-regulate endogenous oxytoc...

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Main Authors: Poutahidis, Theofilos (Author), DiBenedictis, Brett T. (Author), Levkovich, Tatiana (Author), Ibrahim, Yassin (Author), Shikhman, Lana (Author), Cheung, Harry K. (Author), Hardas, Alexandros (Author), Ricciardi, Catherine E. (Author), Kolandaivelu, Kumaran (Author), Veenema, Alexa H. (Author), Erdman, Susan E. (Author), Varian, Bernard (Contributor), Didyk, Eliska (Contributor), Alm, Eric J (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2018-08-24T15:31:06Z.
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