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Pranali Bendale

Kennedy Krieger Institute

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Bile acid signaling as a therapeutically tractable pathway linking early caregiving adversity to social behavior

Cesar Medina, Pragney Deme, Vishal Win, Isabellah Nikitah, Isaac McKie, Mingyuan Song, Maria Raudales, Elaina Regier, Emily Amsden, Pranali Bendale, Norman J. Haughey, Maya M. Opendak

This study identifies bile acid signaling as a pathway linking early caregiving adversity to social behavior, showing that CDCA supplementation can rescue social deficits in a rat model.

bioRxiv · Aug 22, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Metabiosis underlies a microbiota permissive to Pseudomonadota and increases the risk of gut-borne bloodstream infection

Benjamin R. Wucher, Carlos J. Pardo‐De la Hoz, Issac Stamper, Sneh Sharma, Diego Federico Kaune, Pranali Bendale, Jonathan U. Peled, João B. Xavier

The paper identifies metabiosis, an ecological dependency where Bacteroides supports Pseudomonadota growth, increasing gut-borne bloodstream infection risk in allo-HCT patients.

bioRxiv · Apr 21, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology