期刊
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 420, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113715
关键词
Anorexia; GFAP; Glutamate transporters; Glutamine synthetase; Food restriction; Food avoidance
资金
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia [CONACYT-554231, 175835]
- Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigacion e Innovacion Tecnologica (PAPIIT) -UNAM grants [IN205718, IN209121]
In this study, researchers found that anorexia disrupts glutamate-glutamine homeostasis associated with astrocyte dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex of young female rats.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss with a notorious prevalence in young women. The neurobiology of AN is unknown but murine models, like dehydration induced anorexia (DIA), reproduce weight loss and avoidance of food despite its availability. Astrocytes are known to provide homeostatic support to neurons, but it is little explored if anorexia affects this function. In this study, we tested if DIA disrupts glutamate-glutamine homeostasis associated with astrocytes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of young female rats. Our results showed that anorexia reduced the redox state, as well as endogenous glutamate and glutamine. These effects correlated with a reduced expression of the glutamate transporters (GLT-1 and GLAST) and glutamine synthetase, all of them are preferentially expressed by astrocytes. Accordingly, the expression of GFAP was reduced. Anorexia reduced the astrocyte density, promoted a de ramified morphology, and augmented the de-ramified/ramified astrocyte ratio in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), but not in the motor cortex (M2). The increase of a de-ramified phenotype correlated with increased expression of vimentin and nestin. Based on these results, we conclude that anorexia disrupts glutamate-glutamine homeostasis and the redox state associated with astrocyte dysfunction.
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