肠道微生物在孤独症中的研究进展
摘要
<p indent="0mm">Gut microbiota is a major unknown research area of life science due to the complexity of community structures, diverse functions, and complicated interaction between microbiota and host, a large part of intestinal microbes are still the “black boxes” to be explored. Abnormal intestinal microbiota can often be observed in human diseases, and the connection between them has been widely studied in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Together, these works reveal the relationship between the dysregulation of gut microbial structure and function, behavioral defects and comorbidities in patients with autism. In this review, we summarized the latest progress of related research, mechanism exploration and clinical application of the association between gut microbiota and autism and prospected future research directions.