PMID- 26408987 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160815 LR - 20221207 IS - 1873-7544 (Electronic) IS - 0306-4522 (Linking) VI - 310 DP - 2015 Dec 3 TI - Administration of Lactobacillus helveticus NS8 improves behavioral, cognitive, and biochemical aberrations caused by chronic restraint stress. PG - 561-77 LID - S0306-4522(15)00852-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.033 [doi] AB - Increasing numbers of studies have suggested that the gut microbiota is involved in the pathophysiology of stress-related disorders. Chronic stress can cause behavioral, cognitive, biochemical, and gut microbiota aberrations. Gut bacteria can communicate with the host through the microbiota-gut-brain axis (which mainly includes the immune, neuroendocrine, and neural pathways) to influence brain and behavior. It is hypothesized that administration of probiotics can improve chronic-stress-induced depression. In order to examine this hypothesis, the chronic restraint stress depression model was established in this study. Adult specific pathogen free (SPF) Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to 21 days of restraint stress followed by behavioral testing (including the sucrose preference test (SPT), elevated-plus maze test, open-field test (OFT), object recognition test (ORT), and object placement test (OPT)) and biochemical analysis. Supplemental Lactobacillus helveticus NS8 was provided every day during stress until the end of experiment, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) citalopram (CIT) served as a positive control. Results showed that L. helveticus NS8 improved chronic restraint stress-induced behavioral (anxiety and depression) and cognitive dysfunction, showing an effect similar to and better than that of CIT. L. helveticus NS8 also resulted in lower plasma corticosterone (CORT) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels, higher plasma interleukin-10 (IL-10) levels, restored hippocampal serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) levels, and more hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA expression than in chronic stress rats. Taken together, these results indicate an anti-depressant effect of L. helveticus NS8 in rats subjected to chronic restraint stress depression and that this effect could be due to the microbiota-gut-brain axis. They also suggest the therapeutic potential of L. helveticus NS8 in stress-related and possibly other kinds of depression. CI - Copyright (c) 2015 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Liang, S AU - Liang S AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Wang, T AU - Wang T AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Hu, X AU - Hu X AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Luo, J AU - Luo J AD - Teacher Education College, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China. FAU - Li, W AU - Li W AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Wu, X AU - Wu X AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Duan, Y AU - Duan Y AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Jin, F AU - Jin F AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150925 PL - United States TA - Neuroscience JT - Neuroscience JID - 7605074 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 0DHU5B8D6V (Citalopram) RN - 130068-27-8 (Interleukin-10) RN - 333DO1RDJY (Serotonin) RN - 82115-62-6 (Interferon-gamma) RN - 9002-60-2 (Adrenocorticotropic Hormone) RN - VTD58H1Z2X (Dopamine) RN - W980KJ009P (Corticosterone) RN - X4W3ENH1CV (Norepinephrine) SB - IM MH - Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/blood MH - Animals MH - Anxiety/etiology/metabolism/*prevention & control MH - *Behavior, Animal/drug effects MH - Body Weight/drug effects MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/metabolism MH - Citalopram/pharmacology MH - Corticosterone/blood MH - Depression/etiology/metabolism/*prevention & control MH - Dopamine/metabolism MH - Hippocampus/drug effects/metabolism MH - Interferon-gamma/blood MH - Interleukin-10/blood MH - *Lactobacillus helveticus MH - Male MH - Norepinephrine/metabolism MH - Prefrontal Cortex/drug effects/metabolism MH - Probiotics/*administration & dosage/pharmacology MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Restraint, Physical MH - Serotonin/metabolism MH - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Stress, Psychological/*complications MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/blood OTO - NOTNLM OT - BDNF OT - Lactobacillus helveticus OT - chronic restraint stress OT - depression OT - microbiota-gut-brain axis OT - serotonin EDAT- 2015/09/27 06:00 MHDA- 2016/08/16 06:00 CRDT- 2015/09/27 06:00 PHST- 2015/02/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/09/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/09/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/09/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/09/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/08/16 06:00 [medline] AID - S0306-4522(15)00852-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.033 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neuroscience. 2015 Dec 3;310:561-77. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.033. Epub 2015 Sep 25.