Gohmann Luke, Cusick Jessica A, Demas Gregory E, Wellman Cara L
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Department of Biology, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, USA.
Dev Neurobiol. 2025 Jul;85(3):e22971. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22971.
Maternal stress and disruptions of the maternal microbiome during development can have profound organizational effects on the brain and behavior of offspring. We have previously demonstrated that these manipulations have marked, sex-dependent effects on aggressive behavior in Siberian hamsters, Phodopus sungorus. Given that the prelimbic cortex is sensitive to stress and may play a role in modulating social behaviors, here we investigated how maternal stress and disruption of the microbiome during pregnancy may affect the development of the prelimbic cortex in offspring. Pregnant hamsters were exposed to either a broad-spectrum antibiotic, social stress, combined treatments, or no manipulation (i.e., control). Adult offspring (PND 107-115) were euthanized, brains were stained using Golgi histology, and apical and basilar dendritic lengths of pyramidal cells in the prelimbic cortex were quantified. Our data indicate that maternal stress and microbiome manipulation have a sex-dependent effect on offspring dendritic morphology. Maternal stress increased apical dendritic length in female but not male offspring relative to controls. However, the combination of maternal stress and maternal antibiotics ameliorated the effect of stress alone. Thus, maternal stress and disruption of the microbiome interact to produce lasting changes in the prefrontal cortex of female offspring. Such changes may contribute to the behavioral effects of these manipulations.
母体压力以及发育过程中母体微生物群的破坏会对后代的大脑和行为产生深远的组织影响。我们之前已经证明,这些操作对西伯利亚仓鼠(Phodopus sungorus)的攻击行为有显著的、性别依赖性的影响。鉴于前额叶皮层对压力敏感,可能在调节社会行为中发挥作用,在此我们研究了孕期母体压力和微生物群破坏如何影响后代前额叶皮层的发育。将怀孕的仓鼠暴露于广谱抗生素、社会压力、联合处理或不进行任何操作(即对照)。对成年后代(出生后第107 - 115天)实施安乐死,使用高尔基组织学方法对大脑进行染色,并对前额叶皮层中锥体细胞的顶端和基底树突长度进行量化。我们的数据表明,母体压力和微生物群操作对后代树突形态有性别依赖性影响。相对于对照组,母体压力增加了雌性后代而非雄性后代的顶端树突长度。然而,母体压力和母体抗生素的联合使用减轻了单独压力的影响。因此,母体压力和微生物群破坏相互作用,在雌性后代的前额叶皮层产生持久变化。这些变化可能导致这些操作对行为产生影响。
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