Gerard Clarke

Research interests

Publications

• Short chain fatty acids: Microbial metabolites for gut-brain axis signalling

  Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology · 2022 · 10.1016/j.mce.2022.111572

• The blood-brain barrier in aging and neurodegeneration

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2022 · 10.1038/s41380-022-01511-z

• Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

  Nature Medicine · 2021 · 10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x

• Diet and depression: exploring the biological mechanisms of action

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-00925-x

• The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis

  Physiological Reviews · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00018.2018

• Short‐chain fatty acids: microbial metabolites that alleviate stress‐induced brain–gut axis alterations

  The Journal of Physiology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1113/jp276431

• Targeting the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: Prebiotics Have Anxiolytic and Antidepressant-like Effects and Reverse the Impact of Chronic Stress in Mice

  Biological Psychiatry · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.12.031

• The Trier Social Stress Test: Principles and practice

  Neurobiology of Stress · 2016 · 10.1016/j.ynstr.2016.11.001

• Transferring the blues: Depression-associated gut microbiota induces neurobehavioural changes in the rat

  Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2016.07.019

• The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis?

  Neurochemistry International · 2016 · 10.1016/j.neuint.2016.06.011

• Regulation of prefrontal cortex myelination by the microbiota

  Translational Psychiatry · 2016 · 10.1038/tp.2016.42

• Growing up in a Bubble: Using Germ-Free Animals to Assess the Influence of the Gut Microbiota on Brain and Behavior

  The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2016 · 10.1093/ijnp/pyw020

• Kynurenine pathway metabolism and the microbiota-gut-brain axis

  Neuropharmacology · 2016 · 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.07.002

• Gut microbiota depletion from early adolescence in mice: Implications for brain and behaviour

  Brain Behavior and Immunity · 2015 · 10.1016/j.bbi.2015.04.004

• Breaking down the barriers: the gut microbiome, intestinal permeability and stress-related psychiatric disorders

  Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience · 2015 · 10.3389/fncel.2015.00392

• Serotonin, tryptophan metabolism and the brain-gut-microbiome axis

  Behavioural Brain Research · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.07.027

• Minireview: Gut Microbiota: The Neglected Endocrine Organ

  Molecular Endocrinology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1210/me.2014-1108

• Microbiota and neurodevelopmental windows: implications for brain disorders

  Trends in Molecular Medicine · 2014 · 10.1016/j.molmed.2014.05.002

• Microbiota is essential for social development in the mouse

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2013 · 10.1038/mp.2013.65

• Biological and psychological markers of stress in humans: Focus on the Trier Social Stress Test

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2013 · 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.11.005

• The microbiome-gut-brain axis during early life regulates the hippocampal serotonergic system in a sex-dependent manner

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2012.77

• Brain?Gut?Microbe Communication in Health and Disease

  Frontiers in Physiology · 2011 · 10.3389/fphys.2011.00094

• Effects of the probiotic Bifidobacterium infantis in the maternal separation model of depression

  Neuroscience · 2010 · 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.08.005

• The probiotic Bifidobacteria infantis: An assessment of potential antidepressant properties in the rat

  Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2008 · 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2008.03.009

• Expression of the mitochondrial uncoupling protein gene from the aP2 gene promoter prevents genetic obesity.

  Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1995 · 10.1172/jci118363

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