1. Multi-hit early life adversity affects gut microbiota, brain and behavior in a sex-dependent manner
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Julien Chevalier, Jean Christophe Helbling, Patricia Lepage, Élodie Lévy, Pierre-Antoine Grohard, Marion Leboyer, Lilian Basso, Marion Rincel, Gérard Eberl, Muriel Darnaudéry, Hélène Boudin, Camille Monchaux de Oliveira, Sophie Layé, Nathalie Vergnolle, Michel Neunlist, Philippe Aubert, Lucile Capuron, Grégoire Chevalier, Nutrition et Neurobiologie intégrée (NutriNeuro), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Ecole nationale supérieure de chimie, biologie et physique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut de Recherche en Santé Digestive (IRSD ), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Microenvironnement et Immunité - Microenvironment and Immunity, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Est Créteil, MICrobiologie de l'ALImentation au Service de la Santé (MICALIS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech, University of Bordeaux, INRA, AVIESAN Immunology, Hematology and Pneumology, French Ministry of Research, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Ecole nationale supérieure de chimie, biologie et physique, The Enteric Nervous System in gut and brain disorders [U1235] (TENS), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Nantes - UFR de Médecine et des Techniques Médicales (UFR MEDECINE), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
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0301 basic medicine ,Lipopolysaccharides ,Male ,MESH: Maternal Deprivation ,Physiology ,Gut flora ,Anxiety ,MESH: Animals, Newborn ,Marble burying ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,MESH: Behavior, Animal ,MESH: Animals ,Mice, Inbred C3H ,biology ,Behavior, Animal ,Maternal Deprivation ,Microbiota ,Brain ,MESH: Stress, Psychological ,Compulsive behavior ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Gut-brain axis ,Emotional behavior ,MESH: Social Behavior ,Elevated plus maze ,Offspring ,Immunology ,Gut–brain axis ,Prefrontal Cortex ,Intestinal permeability ,MESH: Gastrointestinal Microbiome ,03 medical and health sciences ,MESH: Brain ,Sex Factors ,MESH: Sex Factors ,medicine ,MESH: Microbiota ,Animals ,Early-life stress ,MESH: Mice, Inbred C3H ,Social Behavior ,MESH: Mice ,[SDV.BA.MVSA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Veterinary medicine and animal Health ,MESH: Anxiety ,Endocrine and Autonomic Systems ,HPA axis ,[SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience ,Lachnospiraceae ,Ultrasonic vocalizations ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Medial prefrontal cortex ,MESH: Male ,Gastrointestinal Microbiome ,030104 developmental biology ,MESH: Dysbiosis ,Animals, Newborn ,Dysbiosis ,MESH: Prefrontal Cortex ,MESH: Female ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Stress, Psychological - Abstract
International audience; The accumulation of adverse events in utero and during childhood differentially increases the vulnerability to psychiatric diseases in men and women. Gut microbiota is highly sensitive to the early environment and has been recently hypothesized to affect brain development. However, the impact of early-life adversity on gut microbiota, notably with regards to sex differences, remains to be explored. We examined the effects of multifactorial early-life adversity on behavior and microbiota composition in C3H/HeN mice of both sexes exposed to a combination of maternal immune activation (lipopolysaccharide injection on embryonic day 17, 120 μg/kg, i.p.), maternal separation (3hr per day from postnatal day (PND)2 to PND14) and maternal unpredictable chronic mild stress. At adulthood, offspring exposed to multi-hit early adversity showed sex-specific behavioral phenotypes with males exhibiting deficits in social behavior and females showing increased anxiety in the elevated plus maze and increased compulsive behavior in the marble burying test. Early adversity also differentially regulated gene expression in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) according to sex. Interestingly, several genes such as Arc, Btg2, Fosb, Egr4 or Klf2 were oppositely regulated by early adversity in males versus females. Finally, 16S-based microbiota profiling revealed sex-dependent gut dysbiosis. In males, abundance of taxa belonging to Lachnospiraceae and Porphyromonadaceae families or other unclassified Firmicutes, but also Bacteroides, Lactobacillus and Alloprevotella genera was regulated by early adversity. In females, the effects of early adversity were limited and mainly restricted to Lactobacillus and Mucispirillum genera. Our work reveals marked sex differences in a multifactorial model of early-life adversity, both on emotional behaviors and gut microbiota, suggesting that sex should systematically be considered in preclinical studies both in neurogastroenterology and psychiatric research.
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- 2018
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