Schizophrenia, the gut microbiota, and new opportunities from optogenetic manipulations of the gut-brain axis

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Patrono, Enrico - Svoboda, Jan - Stuchlík, Aleš
Schizophrenia, the gut microbiota, and new opportunities from optogenetic manipulations of the gut-brain axis.
Behavioral and Brain Functions. Roč. 17, č. 1 (2021), č. článku 7. E-ISSN 1744-9081
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-03016S; GA ČR(CZ) GA20-00939S; GA MŠMT(CZ) EF19_074/0016409; GA ČR(CZ) GF21-16667K
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985823
Klíčová slova: schizophrenia * gut microbiota * NMDA hypoactivity * gut optogenetics * NMDARs/GABA interaction * probiotic dietaries * fecal microbiota transplantation
Obor OECD: Neurosciences (including psychophysiology
Impakt faktor: 3.950, rok: 2021
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12993-021-00180-2

Schizophrenia research arose in the twentieth century and is currently rapidly developing, focusing on many parallel research pathways and evaluating various concepts of disease etiology. Today, we have relatively good knowledge about the generation of positive and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. However, the neural basis and pathophysiology of schizophrenia, especially cognitive symptoms, are still poorly understood. Finding new methods to uncover the physiological basis of the mental inabilities related to schizophrenia is an urgent task for modern neuroscience because of the lack of specific therapies for cognitive deficits in the disease. Researchers have begun investigating functional crosstalk between NMDARs and GABAergic neurons associated with schizophrenia at different resolutions. In another direction, the gut microbiota is getting increasing interest from neuroscientists. Recent findings have highlighted the role of a gut-brain axis, with the gut microbiota playing a crucial role in several psychopathologies, including schizophrenia and autism.There have also been investigations into potential therapies aimed at normalizing altered microbiota signaling to the enteric nervous system (ENS) and the central nervous system (CNS). Probiotics diets and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) are currently the most common therapies. Interestingly, in rodent models of binge feeding, optogenetic applications have been shown to affect gut colony sensitivity, thus increasing colonic transit. Here, we review recent findings on the gut microbiota–schizophrenia relationship using in vivo optogenetics. Moreover, we evaluate if manipulating actors in either the brain or the gut might improve potential treatment research. Such research and techniques will increase our knowledge of how the gut microbiota can manipulate GABA production, and therefore accompany changes in CNS GABAergic activity.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0320956