Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14 and Reduced Depression-like Behavior

• The Combination of Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14® and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1® Induces Anxiolytic-like and Antidepressant-like Effects via Estrogenic Receptors in Ovariectomized Rats.

  • 2026-02-24
  • Nutrients 18(5)
  • • Gilberto-Uriel Rosas-Sánchez
    • León Jesús Germán-Ponciano
    • Juan Francisco Rodríguez-Landa
    • Herlinda Bonilla-Jaime
    • Ofelia Limón-Morales
    • José Luis Muñoz-Carrillo
    • María Isabel Pérez-Vega
    • César Soria-Fregozo

  • PubMed: 41829884
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu18050713

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Depression-like Behavior

  • Low evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Animal Study

  Similarly, in the FST, these treatments increased swimming behavior and decreased immobility regarding the same control groups.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate