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Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors

This study was designed to investigate stressful social experience (SSE) in early life by examining how it can induce alterations in the microbiota-gut-brain axis. To test this, different experimental groups of pups experienced the presence of either a stranger (S) with mother (M+P+S) or without the...

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Autores principales: Karen, Christopher, Shyu, Douglas J. H., Rajan, Koilmani Emmanuvel
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8438336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34531716
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.719933
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description This study was designed to investigate stressful social experience (SSE) in early life by examining how it can induce alterations in the microbiota-gut-brain axis. To test this, different experimental groups of pups experienced the presence of either a stranger (S) with mother (M+P+S) or without their mother (MS+S−M). Animals were assessed for anxiety-like behavior and high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA sequencing was performed to analyze the structure of the gut microbiota. Our analysis revealed that early life SSE induced anxiety-like behavior and reduced the diversity and richness of gut microbiota. In the second experiment, all groups were supplemented with Lactobacillus paracasei HT6. The findings indicated that Lactobacillus supplementation had a significant beneficial effect on anxiety-like behavior in stressed rats (MS, M+P+S, and MS + S−M) accompanied by normalized levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), corticosterone (CORT), glucocorticoid receptor (GR), serotonin (5-HT), dopamine (DA), and noradrenaline (NA). Concomitantly, the expression of microRNA (miR)-124a was down-regulated and miR-132, caspase-3, glutamate receptors (GluR1, GluR 2; NR2A, and NR2B) were up-regulated in stressed groups but remained unchanged by Lactobacillus supplementation in stressed individuals. This indicates that stress-associated GluR1-GR altered interactions can be significantly prevented by Lactobacillus supplementation. Analysis of the fecal metabolite profile was undertaken to analyze the effect of Lactobacillus, revealing that five predicted neuroactive microbial metabolites were reduced by early life SSE. Our results showed a potential link between Lactobacillus supplementation and beneficial effects on anxiety-like behavior, the mechanism of which could be potentially mediated through stress hormones, neurotransmitters, and expression of miRNAs, glutamate receptors, and the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
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spelling pubmed-84383362021-09-15 Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors Karen, Christopher Shyu, Douglas J. H. Rajan, Koilmani Emmanuvel Front Neurosci Neuroscience This study was designed to investigate stressful social experience (SSE) in early life by examining how it can induce alterations in the microbiota-gut-brain axis. To test this, different experimental groups of pups experienced the presence of either a stranger (S) with mother (M+P+S) or without their mother (MS+S−M). Animals were assessed for anxiety-like behavior and high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA sequencing was performed to analyze the structure of the gut microbiota. Our analysis revealed that early life SSE induced anxiety-like behavior and reduced the diversity and richness of gut microbiota. In the second experiment, all groups were supplemented with Lactobacillus paracasei HT6. The findings indicated that Lactobacillus supplementation had a significant beneficial effect on anxiety-like behavior in stressed rats (MS, M+P+S, and MS + S−M) accompanied by normalized levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), corticosterone (CORT), glucocorticoid receptor (GR), serotonin (5-HT), dopamine (DA), and noradrenaline (NA). Concomitantly, the expression of microRNA (miR)-124a was down-regulated and miR-132, caspase-3, glutamate receptors (GluR1, GluR 2; NR2A, and NR2B) were up-regulated in stressed groups but remained unchanged by Lactobacillus supplementation in stressed individuals. This indicates that stress-associated GluR1-GR altered interactions can be significantly prevented by Lactobacillus supplementation. Analysis of the fecal metabolite profile was undertaken to analyze the effect of Lactobacillus, revealing that five predicted neuroactive microbial metabolites were reduced by early life SSE. Our results showed a potential link between Lactobacillus supplementation and beneficial effects on anxiety-like behavior, the mechanism of which could be potentially mediated through stress hormones, neurotransmitters, and expression of miRNAs, glutamate receptors, and the microbiota-gut-brain axis. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8438336/ /pubmed/34531716 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.719933 Text en Copyright © 2021 Karen, Shyu and Rajan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Rajan, Koilmani Emmanuvel
Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors
title Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors
title_full Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors
title_fullStr Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors
title_full_unstemmed Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors
title_short Lactobacillus paracasei Supplementation Prevents Early Life Stress-Induced Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Maternal Separation Model-Possible Involvement of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Differential Regulation of MicroRNA124a/132 and Glutamate Receptors
title_sort lactobacillus paracasei supplementation prevents early life stress-induced anxiety and depressive-like behavior in maternal separation model-possible involvement of microbiota-gut-brain axis in differential regulation of microrna124a/132 and glutamate receptors
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8438336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34531716
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.719933
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