Emotional-Single Prolonged Stress : A promising model to illustrate the gut-brain interaction

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Excessive stress can precipitate depression and anxiety diseases, and damage gastrointestinal functionality and microbiota changes, favoring the development of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) - defined by dysregulation in the brain-gut interaction. Therefore, the present study investigated if Emotional-Single Prolonged Stress (E-SPS) induces depressive/anxiety-like phenotype and gut dysfunction in adult Swiss male mice. For this, mice of the E-SPS group were subjected to three stressors sequential exposure: immobilization, swimming, and odor of the predator for 7 days (incubation period). Next, animals performed behavior tests and 24 h later, samples of feces, blood, and colon tissue were collected. E-SPS increased the plasma corticosterone levels, immobility time in the tail suspension and forced swim test, decreased the grooming time in the splash test, OAT%, and OAE% in the elevated plus-maze test, as well as increased anxiety index. Mice of E-SPS had increased % of intestinal transit rate, % of fecal moisture content, and fecal pellets number, and decreased Claudin1 content in the colon. E-SPS decreased the relative abundance of Bacteroidetes phylum, Bacteroidia class, Bacteroidales order, Muribaculaceae and Porphyromonadaceae family, Muribaculum, and Duncaniella genus. However, E-SPS increased Firmicutes and Actinobacteria phylum, Coriobacteriales order, and the ratio of Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes, and demonstrated Mucispirillum genus presence. The present study showed that E-SPS induced depressive/anxiety-like phenotype, predominant diarrhea gut dysfunction, and modulated the gut bacterial microbiota profile in male adult Swiss mice. E-SPS might be a promising model for future studies on the brain-gut interaction and the development of FGIDs with psychological comorbidities.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:260

Enthalten in:

Physiology & behavior - 260(2023) vom: 01. März, Seite 114070

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Marques, Luiza S [VerfasserIn]
Jung, Juliano Tk [VerfasserIn]
Zborowski, Vanessa A [VerfasserIn]
Pinheiro, Roberto C [VerfasserIn]
Nogueira, Cristina W [VerfasserIn]
Zeni, Gilson [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anxiety
Bacterial microbiota
Brain-gut interaction
Depression
Emotional-single prolonged stress
Gut dysfunction
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 24.01.2023

Date Revised 05.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.physbeh.2022.114070

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350863768