Project description:Mammalian species have co-evolved with intestinal microbial communities that can shape development and adapt to environmental changes, including antibiotic perturbation or nutrient flux. In humans, especially children, microbiota disruption is common, yet the dynamic microbiome recovery from early-life antibiotics is still uncharacterized. Using a mouse model mimicking pediatric antibiotic use, we found that therapeutic-dose pulsed antibiotic treatment (PAT) with a beta-lactam or macrolide altered both host and microbiota development. Early-life PAT accelerated total mass and bone growth, and resulted in progressive changes in gut microbiome diversity, population structure, and metagenomic content, with microbiome effects dependent on the number of courses and class of antibiotic. While control microbiota rapidly adapted to a change in diet, PAT slowed the ecological progression, with delays lasting several months in response to the macrolide. This study identifies key markers of disturbance and recovery, which may help provide therapeutic targets for microbiota restoration following antibiotic treatment. C57BL/6J mice received three antibiotic courses: at days 10-15, 28-31, and 37-40 of life, amoxicillin or tylosin.Livers were collected at age 22 weeks, RNA was extracted, and transcriptional differences were measured by microarray analysis.
Project description:Mammalian species have co-evolved with intestinal microbial communities that can shape development and adapt to environmental changes, including antibiotic perturbation or nutrient flux. In humans, especially children, microbiota disruption is common, yet the dynamic microbiome recovery from early-life antibiotics is still uncharacterized. Using a mouse model mimicking pediatric antibiotic use, we found that therapeutic-dose pulsed antibiotic treatment (PAT) with a beta-lactam or macrolide altered both host and microbiota development. Early-life PAT accelerated total mass and bone growth, and resulted in progressive changes in gut microbiome diversity, population structure, and metagenomic content, with microbiome effects dependent on the number of courses and class of antibiotic. While control microbiota rapidly adapted to a change in diet, PAT slowed the ecological progression, with delays lasting several months in response to the macrolide. This study identifies key markers of disturbance and recovery, which may help provide therapeutic targets for microbiota restoration following antibiotic treatment.
Project description:Here we asked whether the single early-life (pup day of life P5-P10) antibiotic pulse was sufficient to enhance Type-1 Diabetes (T1D) in Non Obese Diabetic (NOD) mice. Two sets of experimental samples were analyzed for changes in intestinal pathway expression using the NOD mouse model and Pulsed Antibiotic Therapy (PAT). NODPAT sought to describe the intestinal changes related to early life PAT treatment while the RESTORE experiment sought to restore an antibiotic-perturbed host and measure the intestinal expression changes over time. We provide evidence that maternal microbiota provides partial restoration of both the altered pup microbiota and its immunological phenotypes.
Project description:We measured time series transcriptome level in mouse eyes kept under short day and cool (SC), winter-like conditions, and long day and warm (LW), summer-like conditions.
Project description:Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) initiates a complex series of pathophysiological secondary responses that lead to tissue loss and functional deficits.This study represents a comprehensive database of temporal changes in gene expression that underlie the secondary injury response that occurs in a well-defined mouse model of contusion injury. Keywords: Time-Series
Project description:Microbiota dysbiosis and mucosa-associated bacteria are involved in colorectal cancer (CRC) progression. However, the temporal changes in commensal-derived pathobionts and host-microbe interactions remain poorly understood. Our study demonstrated that antibiotic (ABX) treatment at a mid phase but not at early or late time points reduced tumor burden in a chemically induced CRC mouse model. A transient surge in fecal microbial richness and emergence of virulence factors were observed at the mid phase of CRC induction. Mouse colonic mucosal tissues were collected before (day 0) and on various days after administration of AOM/DSS (i.e., day 46 as early phase, day 56 as mid phase, and day 66 as late phase), and were analyzed using microarray. Unique profiles of autophagy-related genes were identified in the colonic mucosa during the mid phase, which correlated with the presence of intraepithelial bacteria.