ADGUT Project: personalised models and gut microbiota to predict and asses Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience and Mental Health Metabolism and Nutrition
The ADGUT collaborative project seeks to understand the relationship between the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the progression of cognitive alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This project aims to develop personalised preclinical models to prevent the progression of the disease and improve its assessment. Alzheimer’s is an …
Human gut microbiota / Photo: NIH Image Gallery (CC BY 2.0 Deed)

Cognition, related to ferritin in blood and microbiota

Interdisciplinary
According to research led by the Dr. Josep Trueta Biomedical Research Institute of Girona (IDIBGI) Blood levels of ferritin, a protein involved in iron storage, are positively related to executive brain function, which is responsible for skills such as planning, inhibition, flexibility, verbal fluency and …