Saikosaponin A alleviates depressive-like behavior induced by reserpine in mice by regulating gut microflora and inflammatory responses

• Menglin Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Menglin Wang, Haojun Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Haojun Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Menglin Wang, Haojun Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Wenjing Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Li Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Shun Wang,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, P. R. China

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• Miao Jia,

  Roles Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Lu Jia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Yu Zhang,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Haifei Gao,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Xianwu Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yzh7078@163.com (ZY); xwxwabc@sina.com (XZ)

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

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• Zhaohui Yin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yzh7078@163.com (ZY); xwxwabc@sina.com (XZ)

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Mental Health Center (The Third Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Brain Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Hohhot, P. R. China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4847-4079

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