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Article Dans Une Revue Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Année : 2021

Toll-like receptor 5 knock-out mice exhibit a specific low level of anxiety

A.M. Hamieh
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G. Mallaret
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M. Meleine
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A. Lashermes
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S. Roumeau
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L. Boudieu
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J. Barbier
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Y. Aissouni
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D. Ardid
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Frédéric Antonio Carvalho
F. Marchand

Résumé

While toll-like receptors (TLRs), which mediate innate immunity, are known to play an important role in host defense, recent work suggest their involvement in some integrated behaviors, including anxiety, depressive and cognitive functions. Here, we investigated the potential involvement of the flagellin receptor, TLR5, in anxiety, depression and cognitive behaviors using male TLR5 knock-out (KO) mice. We aobserved a specific low level of basal anxiety in TLR5 KO mice with an alteration of the hypothalamo-pituitary axis (HPA) response to acute restraint stress, illustrated by a decrease of both plasma corticosterone level and c-fos expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus where TLR5 was expressed, compared to WT littermates. However, depression and cognitive-related behaviors were not different between TLR5 KO and WT mice. Nor there were significant changes in the expression of some cytokines (IL-6, IL-10 and TNF-α) and other TLRs (TLR2, TLR3 and TLR4) in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala and hippocampus of TLR5 KO mice compared to WT mice. Moreover, mRNA expression of BDNF and glucocorticoid receptors in the hippocampus and amygdala, respectively, was not different. Finally, acute intracerebroventricular administration of flagellin, a specific TLR5 agonist, or chronic neomycin treatment did not exhibit a significant main effect, only a significant main effect of genotype was observed between TLR5 KO and WT mice. Together, those findings suggest a previously undescribed and specific role of TLR5 in anxiety and open original prospects in our understanding of the brain-gut axis function.
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hal-03516251 , version 1 (07-01-2022)

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A.M. Hamieh, G. Mallaret, M. Meleine, A. Lashermes, S. Roumeau, et al.. Toll-like receptor 5 knock-out mice exhibit a specific low level of anxiety. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2021, 93, pp.226-237. ⟨10.1016/j.bbi.2021.01.020⟩. ⟨hal-03516251⟩

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