Joshua M Lyte1, Cassandra E Gheorghe1, Michael S Goodson2, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane2, Timothy G Dinan1,3, John F Cryan1,4, Gerard Clarke1,3. 1. APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. 2. 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, USA. 3. Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. 4. Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Understanding the mechanisms underpinning the response to acute stress is critical for determining how this can be modulated in both health and disease and across sexes. Stress can markedly alter the microbiome and gut-brain axis signaling with the serotonergic system being particularly sensitive to acute stress. As the impact of acute stress on regional serotonergic dynamics in the gut-brain axis and the contribution of the microbiome to this are poorly appreciated, we used microbiota-deficient mice to assess whether the serotonergic response to acute stress exposure is microbiome dependent. METHODS: Adult male and female conventional, germ-free, and colonized germ-free mice underwent a single acute stressor and samples were harvested immediately or 45 minutes following stress. Serotonin and related metabolites and serotonergic gene expression were determined. KEY RESULTS: Our data clearly show the microbiota influenced gastrointestinal serotonergic response to acute stress in a sex- and region-dependent manner. Male-specific poststress increases in colonic serotonin were absent in germ-free mice but normalized following colonization. mRNA serotonergic gene expression was differentially expressed in colon and ileum of germ-free mice on a sex-dependent basis. Within the frontal cortex, absence of the microbiome altered basal serotonin, its main metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid, and prevented stress-induced increases in serotonin turnover. CONCLUSIONS AND INFERENCES: The gut microbiome influences the set points of the brain and gastrointestinal serotonergic systems and affected their response to acute stress in a sex- and region-dependent manner.
BACKGROUND: Understanding the mechanisms underpinning the response to acute stress is critical for determining how this can be modulated in both health and disease and across sexes. Stress can markedly alter the microbiome and gut-brain axis signaling with the serotonergic system being particularly sensitive to acute stress. As the impact of acute stress on regional serotonergic dynamics in the gut-brain axis and the contribution of the microbiome to this are poorly appreciated, we used microbiota-deficient mice to assess whether the serotonergic response to acute stress exposure is microbiome dependent. METHODS: Adult male and female conventional, germ-free, and colonized germ-free mice underwent a single acute stressor and samples were harvested immediately or 45 minutes following stress. Serotonin and related metabolites and serotonergic gene expression were determined. KEY RESULTS: Our data clearly show the microbiota influenced gastrointestinal serotonergic response to acute stress in a sex- and region-dependent manner. Male-specific poststress increases in colonic serotonin were absent in germ-free mice but normalized following colonization. mRNA serotonergic gene expression was differentially expressed in colon and ileum of germ-free mice on a sex-dependent basis. Within the frontal cortex, absence of the microbiome altered basal serotonin, its main metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid, and prevented stress-induced increases in serotonin turnover. CONCLUSIONS AND INFERENCES: The gut microbiome influences the set points of the brain and gastrointestinal serotonergic systems and affected their response to acute stress in a sex- and region-dependent manner.
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