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In this study, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry metabolomics analysis was used to characterize the metabotype of feces, serum, and three brain regions involved in emotion (i.e., the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and striatum), which were obtained from mice that were colonized with fecal microbiota from patients with MG (MMb), healthy individuals (HMb), or co-colonization of both patients and healthy individuals (CMb). Functional enrichment analysis was used to explore the correlation between the \u201cmicrobiota\u2013gut\u2013brain\u201d (MGB) axis and anxiety-like behavior. The behavioral test showed that female MMb exhibited anxiety-like behavior, which could be reversed by co-colonization. Moreover, metabolic characterization analysis of the MGB axis showed that the metabotype of gut-brain communication was significantly different between MMb and HMb, and 146 differential metabolites were jointly identified. 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