Guest Editor:  Giuseppe Esposito, PhD Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol V Erspamer, Piazzale Aldo Moro5, I-00185 Rome, Italy. Email:  giuseppe.esposito@uniroma1.it Website: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=dkfYH_YAAAAJ

Introduction

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, a significant correlation between the neuropathological alterations existing at the level of the enteric (ENS) and central (CNS) nervous systems have been placed at the basis of the onset and progression of neurodegenerative and psychiatric pathologies. The neuroimmunological priming of the glia and enteric neurons, operated by intestinal noxiae that favor the syndrome of the so-called leaky gut syndrome highlights the evidence for primitive signals of amplification and ascent of neuropathological diseases from the intestine to the brain. This can be potentially predictive of the development of neurodegenerative / neuropsychiatric conditions many years before their frank symptomatological emergence, and might potentially address a more timely and successful therapeutic approach. In this context, the alterations of the intestinal microbiota are considerably involved in the triggering of the leaky gut syndrome, as well as neuroimmune/inflammatory responses. Therefore, an accurate study and corrective intervention on the conditions of dysbiosis, as well as its downstream neuroimmune alterations with specific therapeutic tools able to restore intestinal mucosal homeostasis, can certainly result in a new approach to the prevention of neurological / psychiatric disorders. On these bases, this topic is a candidate to be an important opportunity to discuss the main scientific innovations in this emerging field for an interesting study of issues of certain translational impact, considering the approach to the therapy of CNS diseases not only from the traditional point of view, but extending it to a possible implementation aimed at modulating the microbiota and the gut-brain axis.

Prof. Giuseppe Esposito
Guest Editor

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Submission Deadline

December 31, 2024

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Updated on Nov 24, 2023