Journal
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume 87, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00042-19
Keywords
helminth; immunity; obesity; microbiota
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [15H05274, 26870849, 15K08441]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
- Ichiro Kanehara Foundation Japan
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H05274, 15K08441, 26870849] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Obesity is increasingly causing lifestyle diseases in developed countries where helminthic infections are rarely seen. Here, we investigated whether an intestinal nematode, Heligmosomoides polygyrus, has a suppressive role in diet-induced obesity in mice. Infection with H. polygyrus suppressed weight gain in obese mice, which was associated with increased uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) expression in adipocytes and a higher serum norepinephrine (NE) concentration. Blocking interactions of NE with its receptor on adipocytes resulted in the failure to prevent weight gain and to enhance UCP1 expression in obese mice infected with H. polygyrus, indicating that NE is responsible for the protective effects of H. polygyrus on obesity. In addition to sympathetic nerve-derived NE, the intestinal microbiota was involved in the increase in NE. Infection with H. polygyrus altered the composition of intestinal bacteria, and antibiotic treatment to reduce intestinal bacteria reversed the higher NE concentration, UCP1 expression, and prevention of the weight gain observed after H. polygyrus infection. Our data indicate that H. polygyrus exerts suppressive roles on obesity through modulation of microbiota that produce NE.
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