Dan Li, Shuang Yu, Yu Long, Ai Shi, Jie Deng, Yin Ma, Jing Wen, Xiaoqiu Li, Songyu Liu, Yulu Zhang, Jinyan Wan, Nan Li, Rui Ao
Neurological and psychiatric disorders are a category of chronic diseases that are widespread and pose serious mental and physical health problems for patients. The substrates, products, and enzymes of Tryptophan metabolism all contribute to the development of neurological and psychiatric disorders. This paper deals with three metabolic pathways of tryptophan that produce a series of metabolites called tryptophan Catabolics (TRYCATs). These metabolites are involved in pathological processes such as excitotoxicity, neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial damage and are closely associated with neurological and psychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and depression...
2022: Frontiers in Immunology