“…Of the 48 full texts reviewed, only 15 articles met the set inclusion criteria (Figure 1). The reviewed articles encompassed 13 studies using various animal models (Sommer et al, 2001;Gwak et al, 2006; ("neuropath"):ti,ab,kw AND ("microbiota"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathic pain"):ti,ab,kw AND ("bacteria"):ti,ab,kw ("nerve pain"):ti,ab,kw AND ("gut microbe"):ti,ab,kw ("neuralgi"):ti,ab,kw AND ("gut bacteria"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathy"):ti,ab,kw AND ("gut microbiome"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropath"):ti,ab,kw AND ("probiotics"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathy"):ti,ab,kw AND ("prebiotics"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathic"):ti,ab,kw AND ("synbiotic"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathic pain"):ti,ab,kw AND ("postbiotic"):ti,ab,kw ("neuralgia"):ti,ab,kw AND ("chemotherapy"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathy"):ti,ab,kw AND ("chemo-induced"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathic pain"):ti,ab,kw AND ("chronic constriction injury"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathy"):ti,ab,kw AND ("nerve-CCI"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathic pain"):ti,ab,kw AND ("chronic constriction nerve injury"):ti,ab,kw ("neuralgia"):ti,ab,kw AND ("spinal injury"):ti,ab,kw ("hyperalgesia"):ti,ab,kw AND ("spinal nerve injury"):ti,ab,kw ("neuropathic pain"):ti,ab,kw AND ("SNI"):ti,ab,kw: ("hyperlagesia"):ti,ab,kw AND ("spared nerve injury"):ti,ab,kw: (((1 OR 3) AND 3 AND 5) OR ( 5 Austin et al, 2012;Bráz et al, 2012;Wardill et al, 2016;Shen et al, 2017;Ramakrishna et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2019;Brandon-Mong et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2021;Cuozzo et al, 2021;Ding et al, 2021;Lian et al, 2021), a single in vitro study (Castelli et al, 2018), and a single randomised controlled trial (RCT) with 327 enrolled participants, Table 2 (Ellis et al, 2022).…”