Project description:A healthy rumen is crucial for normal growth and improved production performance of ruminant animals. Rumen microbes participate in and regulate rumen epithelial function, and the diverse metabolites produced by rumen microbes are important participants in rumen microbe-host interactions. SCFAs, as metabolites of rumen microbes, have been widely studied, and propionate and butyrate have been proven to promote rumen epithelial cell proliferation. Succinate, as an intermediate metabolite in the citric acid cycle, is a final product in the metabolism of certain rumen microbes, and is also an intermediate product in the microbial synthesis pathway of propionate. However, its effect on rumen microbes and rumen epithelial function has not been studied. It is unclear whether succinate can stimulate rumen epithelial development. Therefore, in this experiment, Chinese Tan sheep were used as experimental animals to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the rumen microbiota community structure and rumen epithelial transcriptome, to explore the role of adding succinate to the diet in the interaction between the rumen microbiota and host.
Project description:Four mature, non-lactating dairy cattle were transitioned from a high forage diet (HF; 0% grain) to a high grain diet (HG; 65% grain) that was fed for three weeks. Rumen papillae biopsies were performed during the HF baseline (week 0) and after the first (week 1) and third week (week 3) of the grain challenge to create a transcript profile for the the short and long-term adaption of the rumen epithelium during ruminal acidosis. Comparison between three weekly means (n=4 for each week, 12 arrays in total)
Project description:Four mature, non-lactating dairy cattle were transitioned from a high forage diet (HF; 0% grain) to a high grain diet (HG; 65% grain) that was fed for three weeks. Rumen papillae biopsies were performed during the HF baseline (week 0) and after the first (week 1) and third week (week 3) of the grain challenge to create a transcript profile for the the short and long-term adaption of the rumen epithelium during ruminal acidosis.
Project description:SARST-V1 method was used to asses the effect of live yeast on the microbial population of the rumen of cows fed an acidogenic diet 3 cows were used in 3 by 3 latin-square design with 3 periods. In each period animals received either 0.5g/d of yeast, 5g/d of yeast or none. Rumen microbiota was analysed using the SARST-V1 method for each period.
Project description:Raw LC-MSMS data from the Plos One publication: "Novel Reusable Animal Model for Comparative Evaluation of In vivo Growth and Protein-Expression of Escherichia coli O157 strains in the Bovine Rumen" Represents 2 LC-MSMS runs L (lactation diet) and M (maintenance diet) in 10 fractions each. Each run contains 6 iTRAQ labeled samples, 3 strains grown in both the in-vivo and in-vitro rumen fluid.
Project description:We investigated changes in rumen fermentation, peripheral blood metabolites and hormones, and hepatic transcriptomic dynamics in Holstein cows with and those without subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) during the periparturient period.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of normal diet feed (NF) and alternative diet feed (AF) on animal performance, gene expression in adipose, liver, and muscle, and changes in bacteria and fungi in the rumen of Bos-Taurus using high-throughput sequencing methods. In addition, Interactions between differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in major metabolic organs and rumen bacteria /fungi were studied. A total of 34,360 genes were found to be expressed across all tissues examined based on transcriptome analysis. According to our findings, 34, 36, 28 genes were differentially expressed in the adipose, liver, and muscle tissues, respectively. A majority of DEGs identified were related to osteoclast differentiation, phagosomes, and immune-functions etc. A study of rumen samples revealed that Firmicutes and Bacterioidetes were the most common phyla. An AF diet significantly increased Firmicutes abundance and reduced Bacterioidetes abundance (p< 0.05). Genus-level analysis revealed that the occurrence of Faecalicatena, Intestinimonas, Lachnoclostridium, Faecalicatena, and Intestinimonas was higher (p < 0.05) in animals fed with the AF diet than in animals fed with an NF diet. As for fungi, Neocallimastigomycota accounted for 98.2% of the NF diet and 86.88% of the AF diet. The AF increased the abundance of Orpinomyces (21.15% to 29.7%), Piromyces (0.1% to 1.8%), and other fungi, but reduced the abundance of Neocallimastix (72.0% to 25.2%). Analysis of the correlation between DEGs and microbes showed that rumen bacteria/fungi significantly influenced expression levels of genes in adipose, liver, and muscle tissues
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in rumen epithelium of dairy cattle at different stages of rumen development and on different diets.
