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Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction-based Analyses of Murine Intestinal Microbiota After Oral Antibiotic Treatment
Published on: November 17, 2018
Age-stratification reveals age-specific intestinal microbiota signatures in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Lisa Budzinski1,2, Toni Sempert1, Leonie Lietz1,2
1German Rheumatology Research Center Berlin - A Leibniz Institute, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, 10117, Germany.
Objective:
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) comprises diverse chronic inflammatory conditions driven by malfunction of the immune system. The intestinal microbiota is considered a crucial environmental factor correlating with chronic inflammatory diseases, and for JIA certain alterations in the microbiota have already been described.
Methods:
Here, we have characterized intestinal microbiota samples from 54 JIA patients and 38 pediatric healthy controls by conventional 16S rRNA sequencing and by single-cell analysis for phenotypic features by multi-parameter microbiota flow cytometry (mMFC), which complements the population-based taxonomic profiling with the characterization of individual bacterial cells.
Results:
We found age to be a crucial confounder in microbiota analyses of JIA patients. Age stratification revealed specific microbiota alterations neglected by the general comparison of JIA patients and pediatric controls.
Conclusion:
Age groups presented distinct taxonomic profiles and microbiota phenotypic signatures which transitioned with age, highlighting changes in the microbiota-immune system interaction with age.
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