Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Reduced Fetal Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction

• Maternal gut microbiota mediates prenatal stress-induced fetal blood‒brain barrier dysfunction.

  • 2026-02-19
  • Gut microbes 18(1)
  • • Xuanping Wang
    • Fang-Yue Zhou
    • Ting Wu
    • Chenchi Duan
    • Xukai Luo
    • Yicong Meng
    • He-Feng Huang
    • Yan-Ting Wu

  • PubMed: 41715909
  • DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2026.2631242

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Fetal Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction

  • Low evidence
  • Animal Study

  Maternal probiotic supplementation during gestation can reverse both gut microbial dysbiosis and fetal BBB dysfunction.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate