Gut feeling, an idiom widely used in western culture, describes an instinctive feeling but not knowing the exact reason. Now a team of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists has explored how gut bacteria influence mouse social behavior through a distinct stress response pathway in the brain. The novel finding, discussed in an article published in the journal Nature on July 15, 2021, has solved a missing piece of the connection between the gut and the brain, the authors say.
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