• Neuroscience · Dec 2022

    Chronic treatment with the probiotics Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG and Bifidobacterium lactis BB12 attenuates motor impairment, striatal microglial activation, and dopaminergic loss in rats with 6-hydroxydopamine-induced hemiparkinsonism.

    • Sergio G Cuevas-Carbonell, Lizbeth Vásquez-Celaya, Daniel García-López, Diego Granados-Patrón, García-MissMaría Del RMDRDepartamento de Neurociencias, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Avenida Itzáes No. 490 x 59, Mérida, Yucatán 97000, Mexico., Fernando J Álvarez-Cervera, Mirza Mut-Martín, Irving Parra, Liliana Mendieta, Humberto Salgado, Javier Alamilla, Reyna Cruz-Bojórquez, Ávila-EscalanteMaría LuisaMLFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Avenida Itzáes No. 498 x 59 y 59A, Mérida, Yucatán 97000, Mexico., Irma I Aranda-González, and José L Góngora-Alfaro.
    • Departamento de Neurociencias, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Avenida Itzáes No. 490 x 59, Mérida, Yucatán 97000, Mexico.
    • Neuroscience. 2022 Dec 15; 507: 799879-98.

    AbstractGut dysbiosis is considered a risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD), and chronic treatment with probiotics could prevent it. Here we report the assessment of a probiotic mixture [Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG), and Bifidobacterium animalis lactis BB-12 (BB-12)] administered to male rats 2 weeks before and 3 weeks after injecting 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) into the right striatum, a model that mimics the early stages of PD. Before and after lesion, animals were subjected to behavioral tests: narrow beam, cylinder test, and apomorphine (APO)-induced rotations. Dopaminergic (DA) denervation and microglia recruitment were assessed with tyrosine hydroxylase (TH+) and ionized calcium-binding protein-1 adapter (Iba1+) immunostaining, respectively. Post 6-OHDA injury, rats treated with sunflower oil (probiotics vehicle) developed significant decrease in crossing speed and increases in contralateral paw slips (narrow beam), forepaw use asymmetry (cylinder), and APO-induced rotations. In striatum, 6-OHDA eliminated ≈2/3 of TH+ area and caused significant increase of Iba1+ microglia population. Retrograde axonal degeneration suppressed ≈2/5 of TH+ neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). In hemiparkinsonian rats, probiotics treatment significantly improved the crossing speed, and also reduced paw slips (postlesion days 14 and 21), the loss of TH+ neurons in SNpc, and the loss of TH+ area and of Iba1+ microglia count in striatum, without affecting the proportion of microglia morphological phenotypes. Probiotics treatment did not attenuate forepaw use asymmetry nor APO-induced rotations. These results indicate that the mixture of probiotics LGG and BB-12 protects nigrostriatal DA neurons against 6-OHDA-induced damage, supporting their potential as preventive treatment of PD.Copyright © 2022 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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