Today, in this (late) Digest:  a set of reviews about the role of microbiota in neurodegeneration, psoriasis and stroke; different studies about the microbiome genital/urinary tracts, and microbiome studies in pandas, salmon and pigeons.

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Complex Interaction between Resident Microbiota and Misfolded Proteins: Role in Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration – Juliana González-Sanmiguel – Cells (MDPI)

Review: Gut-Brain-Skin Axis in Psoriasis: A Review – Guang Chen – Dermatology and Therapy

Minireview: The Gut Ecosystem: A Critical Player in Stroke – Rosa Delgado Jiménez – NeuroMolecular Medicine

Meta-analysis: A meta-analysis of the effect of binge drinking on the oral microbiome and its relation to Alzheimer’s disease – Ayuni Yussof – Scientific Reports

Associations between Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Gastro-Intestinal Microbiota, Diet, and Cognitive Functioning in Dutch Healthy Older Adults: The NU-AGE Study – Annick P. M. van Soest – Nutrients (MDPI)

Comprehensive genome analyses of Sellimonas intestinalis, a potential biomarker of homeostasis gut recovery – Marina Muñoz – Microbial Genomics

Exogenous infusion of short-chain fatty acids can improve intestinal functions independently of the gut microbiota – Hua Zhou – Journal of Animal Science

The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Resisting Norovirus Infection as Revealed by a Human Challenge Study – N. V. Patin – mBio

Current knowledge and perspectives of potential impacts of Salmonella enterica on the profile of the gut microbiota – Nesreen H Aljahdali – BMC Microbiology

Fusobacterium nucleatum in biopsied tissues from colorectal cancer patients and alcohol consumption in Korea – Myungsook Kim – Scientific Reports

The Gut Microbiome in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and its Association with Metabolic Traits – Kreete Lüll – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Genito-Urinary Tract Microbiome

The discovery of bacterial biofilm in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer – Naomi Nadler – APMIS

Cervicovaginal microbiota dysbiosis correlates with HPV persistent infection – Bi Qingqing – Microbial Pathogenesis

Ureteral Stent Microbiota Is Associated with Patient Comorbidities but Not Antibiotic Exposure – Kait F. Al – Cell Reports Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Living Therapeutics: The Next Frontier of Precision Medicine – Vince W. Kelly – ACS Synthetic Biology

Interplay between dietary phenolic compound intake and the human gut microbiome in hypertension: A cross-sectional study – Lorena Calderón-Pérez – Food Chemistry 

Blueberry Consumption Challenges Hepatic Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Elicits Transcriptomics Reprogramming in Healthy Wistar Rats – Sara Nunes – Pharmaceutics (MDPI)

Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 alleviates d-galactosamine-induced liver failure in rats – Huiyong Jiang – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Animal Microbiome

Effect of long-term methylene blue treatment on the composition of mouse gut microbiome and its relationship with the cognitive abilities of mice – Artem P. Gureev – PLoS One

Changes in the diversity and composition of gut microbiota in pigeon squabs infected with Trichomonas gallinae – Feng Ji – Scientific Reports

Analysis of the vaginal microbiome of giant pandas using metagenomics sequencing – Lan Zhang – Microbiology Open

Association of gut microbiota with metabolism in juvenile Atlantic salmon – H. Dvergedal – Microbiome 

Food Microbiome

Differentiation of Milk and Whey Protein Concentrates by Microbiome Profiling Using 16S Metagenomics – Christopher M Thompson – Journal of AOAC international

Microbiome analysis methods and tools

Mediation effect selection in high-dimensional and compositional microbiome data – Haixiang Zhang – Statistics in Medicine

Evaluation of Sampling Methods for the Study of Avian Respiratory Microbiota – Michael Edward C. Abundo – Avian Diseases

MHSNMF: multi-view hessian regularization based symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization for microbiome data analysis – Yuanyuan Ma – BMC Bioinformatics