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SEROTONIN. "Although commensal microbes can produce neuroactive molecules, recent work revealed a microbe–host mechanism of serotonin production. Spore-forming bacteria within the gut microbiota release metabolites, including SCFAs, signalling EC production of serotonin." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cmi.12585/full View in LinkedIn

SEROTONIN-BACTERIA INTERFACE. "The vast majority of serotonin, an estimated 95%, is found within the GI tract. Here, 90% of serotonin is localized within epithelial enterochromaffin cells (ECs) and the remaining 10% remains within the ENS. And while serotonin biosynthesis in the brain remains largely independent of the GI tract, serotonin biosynthesis within the GI tract involves specific microbiota–gut interactions." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cmi.12585/full View in LinkedIn

VISUALIZING SPACE. "Slime Mold Physarum Finds the Shortest Path in a Maze. Amazing? https://lnkd.in/dkqKkEy View in LinkedIn

FRESH EYES. “Such discrepancy would support the popular notion that brain evolution equates with development of the cerebral cortex, which comes to predominate over the other brain structures. However, analysis of absolute, rather than relative, cerebral cortical and cerebellar volumes in the same dataset leads to the opposite conclusion: the surface areas of these structures, would be evidence that the cerebral cortex and cerebellum are functionally related and have been evolving coordinately.” https://lnkd.in/d2aUKat View in LinkedIn

CORTEX AND SIZE. “The increase in relative size of the cerebral cortex with increasing brain size simultaneously with no systematic change in the relative size of the cerebellum has been used as evidence that these structures are functionally independent and have been evolving separately.” https://lnkd.in/d2aUKat View in LinkedIn