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-- Jytdog (talk) 09:19, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

WP:SELFCITE, WP:REFSPAM
Your contributions to date seem to be all about adding references to papers by one lab. While we love experts here (see WP:EXPERT) we do not love experts who use their editing privileges to promote their own work, which is a violation of the policy against abusing WP for promotion. This is also considered a form of spam -- see WP:REFSPAM. Please also see WP:SELFCITE and WP:MEDCOI.

We do love experts, and it would wonderful if you would consider contributing more broadly. But please, enough of the refspamming. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 09:20, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

I am not sure to write at the right place to reply. :-) If I get it right, I cited 1) a lab which is mine (I got a new name :-) ) and and cited too much (spam) with 1 reference. Don't get angry. It is for our own good to laugh at ourselves. More seriously, I think I get it. I guess it is preventive to keep wiki kind of clean. Sorry for trouble. To correct, 1) can I cited more lab ? 2) one reference, sorry, it seems cannot do less. Please, can you clarify. As said in the message linked to my edition, the main point is that the experiment proves a key element of science. If I change A, then B is changed. So, If I change B, will A be changed ? This experiment is perfect example:  same model (maternal stress) same parameter recorded (stress and microbiota change). Already described in wikipedia, Experiment 1 is Change A, then B is changed: maternal stress modify microbiota. Experiment 2 that I added is change B, then A is changed: take probiotic changes microbiota that changes maternal stress. It is really important concept, even in medicine that something is a cause and a consequence, because it provides tools to indirectly modify a parameter. Example, with stress: you are stressed, it will decrease your neurotransmitter level (A is changed, then B is changed). And, because it is also change B, then A will change, take medicine to increase neurotransmitter level, stress will decrease. Medicines are SSRI... If you have any idea on how I can express this concept of A-> B AND B -> A in gut - brain axis, please, let me know. I will follow your directions.