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Oral treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus attenuates behavioural deficits and immune changes in chronic social stress

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, January 2017
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Title
Oral treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus attenuates behavioural deficits and immune changes in chronic social stress
Published in
BMC Medicine, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0771-7
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Aadil Bharwani, M. Firoz Mian, Michael G. Surette, John Bienenstock, Paul Forsythe

Abstract

Stress-related disorders involve systemic alterations, including disruption of the intestinal microbial community. Given the putative connections between the microbiota, immunity, neural function, and behaviour, we investigated the potential for microbe-induced gut-to-brain signalling to modulate the impact of stress on host behaviour and immunoregulation. Male C57BL/6 mice treated orally over 28 days with either Lactobacillus rhamnosus (JB-1) ™ or vehicle were subjected to chronic social defeat and assessed for alterations in behaviour and immune cell phenotype. 16S rRNA sequencing and mass spectrometry were employed to analyse the faecal microbial community and metabolite profile. Treatment with JB-1 decreased stress-induced anxiety-like behaviour and prevented deficits in social interaction with conspecifics. However, JB-1 did not alter development of aggressor avoidance following social defeat. Microbial treatment attenuated stress-related activation of dendritic cells while increasing IL-10+ regulatory T cells. Furthermore, JB-1 modulated the effect of stress on faecal metabolites with neuroactive and immunomodulatory properties. Exposure to social defeat altered faecal microbial community composition and reduced species richness and diversity, none of which was prevented by JB-1. Stress-related microbiota disruptions persisted in vehicle-treated mice for 3 weeks following stressor cessation. These data demonstrate that despite the complexity of the gut microbiota, exposure to a single microbial strain can protect against certain stress-induced behaviours and systemic immune alterations without preventing dysbiosis. This work supports microbe-based interventions for stress-related disorders.

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Unknown 282 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 55 20%
Student > Master 51 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 12%
Researcher 30 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 6%
Other 35 12%
Unknown 59 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 47 17%
Neuroscience 42 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 29 10%
Psychology 12 4%
Other 45 16%
Unknown 74 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 April 2019.
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