期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
卷 37, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100627
关键词
Early-life stress; Probiotics; Neurodevelopment; Microbiota-gut-brain axis; Fear conditioning; Extinction
资金
- Australian Research Council [DP150104835]
- National Health and Medical Research Council [APP1031688]
- Petre Foundation scholarship
- UNSW Research Excellence Award
- Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend Scholarship
Early-life stress has pervasive, typically detrimental, effects on physical and mental health across the lifespan. In rats, maternal-separation stress results in premature expression of an adult-like profile of fear regulation that predisposes stressed rats to persistent fear, one of the hallmarks of clinical anxiety. Probiotic treatment attenuates the effects of maternal separation on fear regulation. However, the neural pathways underlying these behavioral changes are unknown. Here, we examined the neural correlates of stress-induced alterations in fear behavior and their reversal by probiotic treatment. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to either standard rearing conditions or maternal-separation stress (postnatal days [P] 2-14). Some maternally-separated (MS) animals were also exposed to probiotics (Lactobacillus rhamnosus and L. helveticus) via the maternal drinking water during the period of stress. Using immunohistochemistry, we demonstrated that stressed rat pups prematurely exhibit adult-like engagement of the medial prefrontal cortex during fear regulation, an effect that can be prevented using a probiotic treatment. The present results add to the cross-species evidence that early adversity hastens maturation in emotion-related brain circuits. Importantly, our results also demonstrate that the precocious neural maturation in stressed infants is prevented by a non-invasive probiotic treatment.
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