在被诊断患有良性前列腺增生症 (BPH) 的老年男性中识别肠道微生物群肠型
Weronika Ratajczak-Zacharko1, Karolina Skonieczna-Żydecka2, Maria Laszczyńska3
1Department of Functional Diagnostics and Physical Medicine, Faculty of Life Science, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, 71-210, Poland. weronika.ratajczak@pum.edu.pl.
Scientific reports
|May 4, 2025
概括
肠道微生物群的改变与良性前列腺激增症 (BPH) 有关. 特定的肠型,如带有蓝斑,细菌和链球菌的肠型3,在BPH患者中更为普遍,并增加BPH的可能性.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 胃肠病学 胃肠病学
- 泌尿器科 泌尿器科 泌尿器科 泌尿器科
背景情况:
- 人的肠道微生物群在健康和疾病中起着至关重要的作用.
- 肠道微生物群的组成和功能的障碍与各种病理有关.
- 新出现的证据表明肠道失调和前列腺疾病之间存在联系,包括良性前列腺增生症 (BPH) 和前列腺癌.
研究的目的:
- 调查健康男性和BPH患者之间的肠道微生物群组成和肠道类型的差异.
- 确定特定的微生物模式是否与发展BPH的风险增加有关.
主要方法:
- 16S rRNA基因测序 (V3-V4区域) 用于分析81名健康对照组和76名BPH患者的便微生物群.
- 计算了α和β多样性指标,以评估微生物社区结构.
- 用迪里克莱特多项式建模来识别和比较群体之间的肠型.
主要成果:
- 在健康个体和BPH患者之间,没有发现α多样性的显著差异.
- 在两组之间观察到β多样性 (微生物群组成) 的显著差异 (p < 0.001).
- 肠型分析显示了健康男性和BPH患者之间的显著差异 (p = 0.035). 肠型3,由蓝病,细菌菌和链球菌主导,在BPH患者中最为普遍,与肠型1 (OR = 3.24) 相比,与BPH的可能性增加了三倍.
结论:
- 肠道微生物组合的变化与良性前列腺增生有关.
- 特定肠类型的流行,特别是3型肠类型,可能代表与BPH相关的微生物特征.
- 这些发现凸显了肠道微生物组在BPH病变发生过程中的潜在作用.
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