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Cerebellar mitochondrial dysfunction and concomitant multi-system fatty acid oxidation defects are sufficient to discriminate PTSD-like and resilient male mice
- Source :
- Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 6, Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, Vol 6, Iss, Pp 100104-(2020), Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The impact of trauma on mental health is complex with poorly understood underlying mechanisms. Mitochondrial dysfunction is increasingly implicated in psychopathologies and mood disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We hypothesized that defects in mitochondrial energy metabolism in the cerebellum, an emerging region of interest in the pathobiology of mood disorders, would be associated with PTSD-like symptomatology, and that PTSD-like symptomatology would correlate with the activities of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (mtETC) and fatty acid oxidation (FAO) pathways. We assayed mitochondrial energy metabolism and fatty acid profiling using targeted metabolomics in mice exposed to a recently developed paradigm for PTSD-induction. 48 wild type male FVB.129P2 mice were exposed to a trauma, and PTSD-like and resilient animals were identified using behavioral profiling. Mice displaying PTSD-like symptomatology displayed reduced mtETC complex activities in the cerebellum, and cerebellar mtETC complex activity negatively correlated with PTSD-like symptomatology. PTSD-like animals also displayed fatty acid profiles consistent with FAO dysfunction in both cerebellum and plasma. Machine learning analysis of all biochemical measures in this cohort of animals also identified plasma acetylcarnitine, along with reduced activity of cerebellar complex I and IV as well as succinate:cytochrome c oxidoreductase as state predictive discriminators of PTSD-symptomatology. Our data also suggest that trauma-induced impaired mtETC function in the cerebellum and concomitant impaired multi-system fatty acid oxidation are candidate drivers of PTSD-like behavior in mice. These bioenergetic and metabolic changes may offer an informative window into the underlying biology and highlight novel potential targets for diagnostics and therapeutic interventions in PTSD.<br />Highlights • Cerebellar mitochondrial dysfunction directly correlates with PTSD symptomatology. • Cerebellar mitochondrial dysfunction is a candidate driver event for trauma susceptibility. • Circulating fatty acids are biomarkers for trauma susceptibility. • A multidimensional cerebellar and body metabolic reprogramming predicts susceptibility to trauma.
- Subjects :
- Cerebellum
medicine.medical_specialty
Stress-related disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 13]
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Mitochondrion
behavioral disciplines and activities
Internal medicine
Full Length Article
mental disorders
medicine
Acetylcarnitine
Beta oxidation
General Environmental Science
chemistry.chemical_classification
biology
Resilience
Cytochrome c
Wild type
Fatty acid
PTSD
medicine.disease
Mitochondria
medicine.anatomical_structure
Endocrinology
Mood disorders
chemistry
Fatty acid oxidation
biology.protein
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
medicine.drug
RC321-571
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 26663546
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 6, Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, Vol 6, Iss, Pp 100104-(2020), Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....968375cf19b333c0c552565e2b134c3c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2020.100104