ArticleMicrobiome2019
Gut microbiota from NLRP3-deficient mice ameliorates depressive-like behaviors by regulating astrocyte dysfunction via circHIPK2.
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- The emerging role of circular RNAs in neuropsychiatric disorders.Translational psychiatry · 2025Review
- Acupuncture for Major Depressive Disorder: Exploring the Gut Microbiota as a Novel Therapeutic Pathway.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- The peritoneal cestode Taenia crassiceps restructures gut bacterial communities in the mouse host: identification of potential resistance-associated bacteria.Parasitology research · 2025Article
- Salmonella typhimurium downregulates circHIPK2 expression via CeRNA mechanism to inhibit cell migration and tumorigenesis.Gut pathogens · 2025Article
- Mechanism of Microbiota-Gut-Brain in Perimenopausal Depression: An Inflammatory Perspective.Expert reviews in molecular medicine · 2025Review
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of microbiota-gut-astrocyte axis perturbation in neurodegeneration, brain injury, and mood disorders.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundInflammasomes have been found to interact with the gut microbiota, and this effect is associated with depression, but the mechanisms underlying this interaction have not been elucidated in detail.
resultsThe locomotor activity of NLRP3 KO mice was significantly greater than that of their WT littermates, while cohousing and transplantation of the NLRP3 KO gut microbiota avoid the effects of NLRP3 KO on the general locomotor activity at baseline. Meanwhile, transplantation of the NLRP3 KO microbiota alleviated the CUS-induced depressive-like behaviors. The compositions of the gut microbiota in NLRP3 KO mice and WT mice were significantly different in terms of the relative abundance of Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from NLRP3 KO mice significantly ameliorated the depressive-like behavior induced by chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) in recipient mice. Given the correlation between circular RNA HIPK2 (circHIPK2) and depression and the observation that the level of circHIPK2 expression was significantly increased in CUS-treated mice compared with that in the control group, further experiments were performed. FMT significantly ameliorated astrocyte dysfunction in recipient mice treated with CUS via inhibition of circHIPK2 expression.
conclusionsOur study illustrates the involvement of the gut microbiota-circHIPK2-astrocyte axis in depression, providing translational evidence that transplantation of the gut microbiota from NLRP3 KO mice may serve as a novel therapeutic strategy for depression.
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