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Biphasic changes in ?-cell mass around parturition are accompanied by increased serotonin production.

ABSTRACT: Pancreatic ?-cell mass is known to be considerably altered during pregnancy and after parturition in rodents and humans. While ?-cell mass increases during pregnancy and starts to return toward its original level after parturition, the cellular mechanisms by which ?-cell mass during this period is regulated remains unclear. To address this issue in mice, we quantified ?-cell mass and investigated the mechanisms underlying its regulation throughout the perinatal and postpartum period. The increased ?-cell size and proliferation during pregnancy were significantly reduced shortly after parturition, whereas there was no evidence of ?-cell reprogramming or increased apoptosis. Direct RNA sequencing of islets from pregnant and postpartum mice demonstrated dynamic changes in gene expression patterns, showing robust downregulation of cell cycle-related genes 1 day after parturition, and the reupregulation of serotonin metabolism-related genes at postpartum day 7. Serotonin synthesis was activated only in lactating females, accompanied by increased ?-cell mass. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that ?-cell mass is decreased shortly after parturition owing to reduced ?-cell size and proliferation, and is subsequently increased, in association with lactation and serotonin biosynthesis.

SUBMITTER: Takahashi M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7080838 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Biphasic changes in β-cell mass around parturition are accompanied by increased serotonin production.

Takahashi Masaya M Miyatsuka Takeshi T Suzuki Luka L Osonoi Sho S Himuro Miwa M Miura Masaki M Katahira Takehiro T Wakabayashi Yuka Y Fukunaka Ayako A Nishida Yuya Y Fujitani Yoshio Y Takeda Satoru S Mizukami Hiroki H Itakura Atsuo A Watada Hirotaka H

Scientific reports 20200318 1

Pancreatic β-cell mass is known to be considerably altered during pregnancy and after parturition in rodents and humans. While β-cell mass increases during pregnancy and starts to return toward its original level after parturition, the cellular mechanisms by which β-cell mass during this period is regulated remains unclear. To address this issue in mice, we quantified β-cell mass and investigated the mechanisms underlying its regulation throughout the perinatal and postpartum period. The increas ...[more]

PMID: 32188885

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Project description:Perinatal care is important in mammals due to its contribution to fetal growth, maternal health, and lactation. Substantial changes in host hormones, metabolism, and immunity around the parturition period may be accompanied by alterations in the gut microbiome. However, to our knowledge, changes in the gut microbiome and their contribution to the shifts in host metabolism around parturition have not been investigated in pigs. Furthermore, pigs are an ideal biomedical model for studying the interactions of the gut microbiota with host metabolism, due to the ease of controlling feeding conditions. Here we report dramatic remodeling of the gut microbiota and the potential functional capacity during the late stages of pregnancy (5 days before parturition, LP) to postpartum (within 6 h after delivery, PO) in both experimental and validated populations of sows (n = 107). The richness of bacteria in the gut of both pregnant and delivery sows significantly decreased, whilst the β-diversity dramatically expanded. The ratio of Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes, and the relative abundance of Prevotella significantly decreased, whilst the relative abundance of the predominant genus Lactobacillus significantly increased from LP to PO state. The predicted functional capacities of the gut microbiome related to amino acid metabolism, the metabolism of cofactors and vitamins, and glycan biosynthesis were significantly decreased from LP to PO state. However, the abundance of the functional capacities associated with carbohydrate and lipid metabolism were increased. Consistent with these changes, serum metabolites enriched at the LP stage were associated with the metabolism of amino acids and vitamins. In contrast, metabolites enriched at the PO stage were related to lipid metabolism. We further identified that the richness and β-diversity of the gut microbiota and the abundance of Lactobacillus accounted for shifts in the levels of bile acid metabolites associated with lipid metabolism. The results suggest that host-microbiota interactions during the perinatal period impact host metabolism. These benefit the lactation of sows by providing energy from lipid metabolism for milk production.

Project description:Parturition is a crucial event in the sow reproduction cycle, which accompanies by a series of physiological changes, including sex hormones, metabolism, and immunity. More and more studies have indicated the changes of the gut microbiota from pregnancy to parturition. However, what bacterial species and functional capacities of the gut microbiome are changed around parturition has been largely unknown, and the correlations between the changes of gut bacterial species and host metabolome were also uncovered. In this study, by combining 16S rRNA gene and shotgun metagenomic sequencing data, and the profiles of serum metabolome and fecal short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), we investigated the changes of gut microbiome, serum metabolite features and fecal SCFAs from late pregnancy (LP) to postpartum (PO) stage. We found the significant changes of gut microbiota from LP to PO stage in both 16S rRNA gene sequencing and metagenomic sequencing analyses. The bacterial species from Lactobacillus, Streptococcus, and Clostridium were enriched at the LP stage, while the species from Bacteroides, Escherichia, and Campylobacter had higher abundances at the PO stage. Functional capacities of the gut microbiome were also significantly changed and associated with the shifts of gut bacteria. Untargeted metabolomic analyses revealed that the metabolite features related to taurine and hypotaurine metabolism, and arginine biosynthesis and metabolism were enriched at the LP stage, and positively associated with those bacterial species enriched at the LP stage, while the metabolite features associated with vitamin B6 and glycerophospholipid metabolism had higher abundances at the PO stage and were positively correlated with the bacteria enriched at the PO stage. Six kinds of SCFAs were measured in feces samples and showed higher concentrations at the LP stage. These results suggested that the changes of gut microbiome from LP to PO stage lead to the shifts of host lipid, amino acids and vitamin metabolism and SCFA production. The results from this study provided new insights for the changes of sow gut microbiome and host metabolism around parturition, and gave new knowledge for guiding the feeding and maternal care of sows from late pregnancy to lactation in the pig industry.

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Biphasic changes in ?-cell mass around parturition are accompanied by increased serotonin production.

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