Effet neuroprotecteur de Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 chez divers modèles de la maladie d’Alzheimer
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) often presents itself as a progressive decline of behavioral and cognitive functions such as memory impairment. On a biological level, this disease presents extracellular accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aß), intracellular accumulation of tau, alteration of synaptic function and neuronal loss. Recent data showed that a supplementation with a specific probiotic strain of bacteria, Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 (HA-114), had a neuroprotective effect in several neurodegenerative disease models. This project aimed to characterize the neurophysiological aspects of a specific nematode strain expressing the Aß1-42 fragment and to validate the neuroprotective effect of HA-114 in this nematode strain as well as in the APP/PS1 murin model of AD. Following biochemical and behavioral experiments, data showed that this strain recapitulates key traits of AD: an age-dependent alteration of neuronal health and memory impairment. It was also observed that administrating HA-114 probiotic strain could attenuate age-related phenotypes of neurodegeneration and paralysis. This transgenic strain is therefore a new tool for drug screening and investigating AD’s pathogenesis. The neuroprotective effect of HA-114 observed in this strain shows potential towards an amelioration of the patient’s quality of life. Studying the effects of HA-114 in a murin model could reveal new investigation opportunities for AD’s pathogenesis and mechanisms that could one day cure this disease.
Memory Microbiome Aging Nematode Neurodegeneration C. elegans Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid-beta Worm