Project description:Neonatal mice were susceptible to cryptosporidium infection at 1- and 2-weeks of age, but were resistant to infection at 3- and 6-weeks of age. Diet and microbial changes are known to occur during the weaning transition in mice and we hypothesized that these changes in the intestinal luminal environment might influence resistance and susceptibility to cryptosporidium infection. As one part of testing this hypothesis, cecal microbiota composition was determined by 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing of DNA isolated from the cecal contents of mice at 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and 6 weeks of age.
Project description:Gnotobiotic NMRI mice were colonized at birth with B. thetaiotaomicron. Mice were sacrificed at P17 or P30, cecal contents were harvested and used for transcriptional profiling. Keywords: developmental timepoints, in vivo
Project description:Genome wide transcriptional comparison of B. thetaiotaomicron mono-association vs. B. thetaiotaomicron bi-association with B. longum. Cecal populations from 10d colonizations with b6 gnotobiotic mice fed a standard-chow polysaccharide rich (PR) diet (n=5 samples/group) were profiled. Total RNA was prepared from cecal contents of 10 day associated gnotobiotic mice and hybridized to B. thetaiotaomicron/B. longum GeneChips.
