1. Biodiversity of the Mucosa-Associated Microbiota Is Stable Along the Distal Digestive Tract in Healthy Individuals and Patients With Ibd
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Patricia Lepage, Marie-France de la Cochetière, Malène Sutren, Philippe Marteau, Joël Doré, Raymond Jian, Philippe Seksik, Unité de recherche d'Écologie et Physiologie du Système Digestif (UEPSD), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Biologie et physiopathologie intestinales. Pharmacologie nutritionnelle, Université de Nantes (UN)-IFR26-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)
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Male ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Gastroenterology ,Inflammatory bowel disease ,Feces ,0302 clinical medicine ,Crohn Disease ,Immunology and Allergy ,Aged, 80 and over ,0303 health sciences ,education.field_of_study ,Middle Aged ,Ulcerative colitis ,3. Good health ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Adult ,DNA, Bacterial ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Population ,Rectum ,Ileum ,Biology ,DNA, Ribosomal ,digestive system ,03 medical and health sciences ,Enterobacteriaceae ,INTESTINAL MUCOSA ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Intestine, Large ,Microbiome ,Colitis ,education ,TTGE ,Aged ,030304 developmental biology ,INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE ,medicine.disease ,Case-Control Studies ,FECAL MICROBIOTA ,Colitis, Ulcerative ,BIODIVERSITY ,ASSOCIATED-MUCOSA MICROBIOTA - Abstract
International audience; BACKGROUND: The mucosa-associated microbiota, being very close to the inflammatory process associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), may have a pathogenic role. We used a culture-independent method to analyze the mucosa-associated microbiota in IBD patients at various points of the distal digestive tract. METHODS: Thirty-five patients (20 with Crohn's disease, 11 with ulcerative colitis, and 4 controls) underwent colonoscopy. Biopsies (n = 126) were taken from 4 sites: the ileum, right colon, left colon, and rectum. Fecal samples were also obtained from 7 individuals. Temporal temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TTGE) of 16S rDNA was used to evaluate dominant species diversity. TTGE profiles were compared using software that measures the degree of similarity. RESULTS: In a given individual, the overall similarity percentage between the 4 segments of the distal digestive tract was 94.7 +/- 4.0%, regardless of clinical status. The average similarity of all profiles for a given segment was 59.3 +/- 18.3% in the overall population. Dendrogram analysis showed that TTGE profiles did not cluster with clinical status. Differences were observed between the dominant fecal microbiota and the mucosa-associated microbiota of all 4 sites, with similarity percentages less than 92%. CONCLUSIONS: These results confirm that the dominant species differ between the mucosa-associated and fecal microbiota. They also show that, in a given individual, the microbiota is relatively stable along the distal digestive tract, showing a slight evolution in dominant species diversity from the ileum to the rectum, in both healthy subjects and patients with IBD.
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- 2005
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