1. Pharmacological restoration of gut barrier function in stressed neonates partially reverses long-term alterations associated with maternal separation
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Muriel Darnaudéry, Eric Gaultier, Anna Maria Costa, Amandine M. Minni, Laurent Ferrier, Vassilia Theodorou, Yann Matime, Isabelle Grit, Jean-Christophe Helbling, Amandine Lépinay, Maïwenn Olier, Marie-Pierre Moisan, Camille Monchaux de Oliveira, Sophie Layé, Patricia Parnet, Marion Rincel, 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, Neuro-Gastroentérologie & Nutrition (ToxAlim-NGN), ToxAlim (ToxAlim), 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 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-Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan (INPT - EI Purpan), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Endocrinologie & Toxicologie de la Barrière Intestinale (ToxAlim-ENTeRisk), Physiopathologie des Adaptations Nutritionnelles (PhAN), and Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
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Male ,Time Factors ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Gut flora ,16S sequencing ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pregnancy ,Corticosterone ,Intestinal Mucosa ,Intestinal barrier ,Blood-brain barrier ,Female urine sniffing test ,biology ,Tight junction ,Depression ,Maternal Deprivation ,Azepines ,Animal models ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,[SDV.TOX]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology ,Female ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Myosin light-chain kinase ,Intraperitoneal injection ,Intestinal permeability ,Naphthalenes ,Blood–brain barrier ,03 medical and health sciences ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Early-life stress ,Rats, Wistar ,Myosin light chain kinase ,Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase ,Pharmacology ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,business.industry ,Lachnospiraceae ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Gastrointestinal Microbiome ,Rats ,030227 psychiatry ,Irritable bowel syndrome ,Endocrinology ,Animals, Newborn ,chemistry ,business ,[SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition ,Stress, Psychological ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
International audience; Intestinal permeability plays an important role in gut-brain axis communication. Recent studies indicate that intestinal permeability increases in neonate pups during maternal separation (MS). The present study aims to determine whether pharmacological inhibition of myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), which regulates tight junction contraction and controls intestinal permeability, in stressed neonates, protects against the long-term effects of MS. Male Wistar rats were exposed to MS (3 h per day from post-natal day (PND)2 to PND14) or left undisturbed and received daily intraperitoneal injection of a MLCK inhibitor (ML-7, 5 mg/kg) or vehicle during the same period. At adulthood, emotional behaviors, corticosterone response to stress, and gut microbiota composition were analyzed. ML-7 restored gut barrier function in MS rats specifically during the neonatal period. Remarkably, ML-7 prevented MS-induced sexual reward-seeking impairment and reversed the alteration of corticosterone response to stress at adulthood. The effects of ML-7 were accompanied by the normalization of the abundance of members of Lachnospiraceae, Clostridiales, Desulfovibrio, Bacteroidales, Enterorhabdus, and Bifidobacterium in the feces of MS rats at adulthood. Altogether, our work suggests that improvement of intestinal barrier defects during development may alleviate some of the long-term effects of early-life stress and provides new insight on brain-gut axis communication in a context of stress.
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- 2019
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