Peripheral Guanylate Cyclase-C modulation of corticolimbic activation and corticotropin-releasing factor signaling in a rat model of stress-induced colonic hypersensitivity.

Autor: Ligon CO; Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA., Hannig G; Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA, USA., Greenwood-Van Meerveld B; Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.; Department of Physiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Neurogastroenterology and motility [Neurogastroenterol Motil] 2021 Mar; Vol. 33 (3), pp. e14076. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Dec 29.
DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14076
Abstrakt: Background: Psychological stress is a risk factor for irritable bowel syndrome, a functional gastrointestinal pain disorder featuring abnormal brain-gut connectivity. The guanylate cyclase-C (GC-C) agonist linaclotide has been shown to relieve abdominal pain in IBS-C and exhibits antinociceptive effects in rodent models of post-inflammatory visceral hypersensitivity. However, the role GC-C signaling plays in psychological stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity is unknown. Here, we test the hypothesis that GC-C agonism reverses stress-induced colonic hypersensitivity via inhibition of nociceptive afferent signaling resulting in normalization of stress-altered corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) expression in brain regions involved in pain perception and modulation.
Methods: Adult female rats were exposed to water avoidance stress or sham stress for 10 days, and the effects of linaclotide on stress-induced changes in colonic sensitivity, corticolimbic phospho-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (pERK), and CRF expression were measured using a combination of behavioral assessments, immunohistochemistry, and qRT-PCR.
Key Results: Stressed rats exhibited colonic hypersensitivity and elevated corticolimbic pERK on day 11, which was inhibited by linaclotide. qRT-PCR analysis revealed dysregulated CRF expression in the medial prefrontal cortex, paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, and central nucleus of the amygdala on day 28. Dysregulated CRF expression was not affected by linaclotide treatment.
Conclusions and Inferences: Our results demonstrate that exposure to repeated stress induces chronic colonic hypersensitivity in conjunction with altered corticolimbic activation and CRF expression. GC-C agonism attenuated stress-induced colonic hypersensitivity and ERK phosphorylation, but had no effect on CRF expression, suggesting the analgesic effects of linaclotide occur independent of stress-driven CRF gene expression in corticolimbic circuitry.
(© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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