Chronic Sleep Deprivation Causes Anxiety, Depression and Impaired Gut Barrier in Female Mice-Correlation Analysis from Fecal Microbiome and Metabolome

Overview

Journal Biomedicines

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2025 Jan 8

PMID 39767560

Authors

Lingyue Li

Zilin Meng

Yuebing Huang

Luyao Xu

Qianling Chen

Dongfang Qiao

Xia Yue

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Abstract

Background: Chronic sleep deprivation (CSD) plays an important role in mood disorders. However, the changes in the gut microbiota and metabolites associated with CSD-induced anxiety/depression-like behavior in female mice have not been determined. Due to the influence of endogenous hormone levels, females are more susceptible than males to negative emotions caused by sleep deprivation. Here, we aim to investigate how CSD changes the gut microbiota and behavior and uncover the relationship between CSD and gut microbiota and its metabolites in female mice.

Methods: We used a 48-day sleep deprivation (SD) model using the modified multiple platform method (MMPM) to induce anxiety/depression-like behavior in female C57BL/6J mice and verified our results using the open field test, elevated plus maze, novel object recognition test, forced swim test, and tail suspension test. We collected fecal samples of mice for 16S rDNA sequencing and untargeted metabolomic analysis and colons for histopathological observation. We used Spearmen analysis to find the correlations between differential bacterial taxa, fecal metabolites, and behaviors.

Results: Our study demonstrates that CSD induced anxiety/depressive-like behaviors in female mice. The results of 16S rDNA sequencing suggested that the relative abundance of the harmful bacteria , , , and were significantly increased, while the beneficial bacteria , , and were significantly decreased after SD. Glycerophospholipid metabolism and glutathione metabolism were identified as key pathways in the fecal metabolism related to oxidative stress and inflammatory states of the intestine. Histological observation showed hyperplasia of epithelial cells, a decrease in goblet cells, and glandular atrophy of the colon in SD mice. There were correlations between some of the differential bacterial taxa, fecal metabolites, and behaviors.

Conclusion: In summary, we found that CSD induced anxiety/depression-like behavior, caused gut microbiota dysbiosis, altered fecal metabolism, and damaged the colon barrier in female mice.

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