The gut microbiome modulates the susceptibility to traumatic stress in a sex-dependent manner

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a psychological condition triggered by exposure to extreme or chronic stressful events, exhibits a sex bias in incidence and clinical manifestations. Emerging research implicates the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of PTSD and its roles in stress susceptibility. However, it is unclear whether differential gut microbiota contribute to PTSD susceptibility in male and female rats. Here, we utilized the single prolonged stress animal model and employed unsupervised machine learning to classify stressed animals into stress-susceptible subgroups and stress-resilient subgroups. Subsequently, using 16S V3-V4 rDNA sequencing, we investigated the differential gut microbiota alterations between susceptible and resilient individuals in male and female rats. Our findings revealed distinct changes in gut microbiota composition between the sexes at different taxonomic levels. Furthermore, the abundance of Parabacteroides was lower in rats that underwent SPS modeling compared to the control group. In addition, the abundance of Tenericutes in the stress-susceptible subgroup was higher than that in the control group and stress-resilient subgroup, suggesting that Tenericutes may be able to characterize stress susceptibility. What is particularly interesting here is that Cyanobacteria may be particularly associated with anti-anxiety effects in male rats. This study underscores sex-specific variations in gut microbiota composition in response to stress and sex differences should be taken into account when using macrobiotics for neuropsychiatric treatment, highlighting potential targets for PTSD therapeutic interventions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:102

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Journal of neuroscience research - 102(2024), 3 vom: 05. März, Seite e25315

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shen, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Su, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Shihao [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Hubo [VerfasserIn]
Si, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Yanxue [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Gut microbiome
Journal Article
Sex differences
Single prolonged stress
Stress-resilience
Stress-susceptibility

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Date Completed 06.03.2024

Date Revised 06.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/jnr.25315

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369294459