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Record W4408158680 · doi:10.3389/frmbi.2025.1454909

Probiotic supplementation prevents stress-impaired spatial learning and enhances the effects of environmental enrichment

2025· article· en· W4408158680 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Microbiomes · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicStress Responses and Cortisol
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsProbioticEnvironmental stressEnvironmental enrichmentSpatial learningStress (linguistics)PsychologyFood scienceBiologyNeuroscienceEcologyCognitionBacteria

Abstract

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Probiotics are live microorganisms that offer health benefits, influencing the microbiota-gut-brain axis. Probiotics can improve cognitive functions, including learning and memory, by modulating the gut microbiota, reducing inflammation, and producing neuroactive substances. This study examined the effects of probiotic supplementation prior to chronic stress or enrichment (EE) treatment on cognitive function and brain physiology. Rats received probiotics or control diet starting at 6 months of age for 3 months. They were then randomly assigned to unpredictable stress, or EE for 6 weeks, with a home cage control group on a control diet included. Results showed that probiotic supplementation prevented spatial memory impairments induced by chronic stress and enhanced learning when combined with EE. These behavioral improvements were linked to increased gut microbiome diversity. Higher levels of the microglia marker Iba-1 were found in the stressed group compared to the EE group in the locus coeruleus, which probiotic reversed. Differences in blood-brain-barrier integrity were observed between the stress and EE groups, as indicated by albumin levels. Higher levels of tyrosine hydroxylase were observed in the hippocampus of the EE groups. The interaction of probiotic supplementation, chronic stress, and environmental EE offers a promising area for enhancing cognitive function and brain health.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.062
Threshold uncertainty score0.344

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.003
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it