320. 1-Kestose prevents psychiatric-like behavior by enhancing short-chain fatty acid production
M Tanabe, K Kunisawa, T Fujii, T Tochio, Y Hirooka, H Ojika, Y Naruoka, H Ito, K Saito, T Nabeshima, A Mouri · 2026
Read 320. 1-Kestose prevents psychiatric-like behavior by enhancing short-chain fatty acid production by M Tanabe, K Kunisawa, T Fujii, T Tochio, Y Hirooka, H Ojika, Y Naruoka, H Ito, K Saito, T Nabeshima, A Mouri (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13556742.txt.
Description
M Tanabe and co-authors test a plant sugar against stress effects in animals in 2026. Teen stress raises the risk of adult mental illness. Standard drugs alter brain transmitters but carry side effects, and many patients do not respond.
The sugar, 1-kestose, feeds gut microbes that make short-chain fatty acids. Those acids may protect the developing brain. Animals received the sugar around a stress routine. Psychiatric-like behavior was then checked in adulthood. Gut changes were measured alongside behavior. Readers see a prevention idea that works through the gut rather than the brain directly.
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| CREATOR | M Tanabe, K Kunisawa, T Fujii, T Tochio, Y Hirooka, H Ojika, Y Naruoka, H Ito, K Saito, T Nabeshima, A Mouri |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |