Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats
Background: Accumulating evidence suggests a connection between the gut microbiota and neonatal diseases. Hypoxia may play an important role in the intestinal lesions in neonates.Objective: This study aims to determine whether the gut microbiota differs between intrauterine hypoxic rats and healthy...
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| author | Yan Sun Lei Li Jiayu Song Wei Mao Kaihao Xiao Chunming Jiang |
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| description | Background: Accumulating evidence suggests a connection between the gut microbiota and neonatal diseases. Hypoxia may play an important role in the intestinal lesions in neonates.Objective: This study aims to determine whether the gut microbiota differs between intrauterine hypoxic rats and healthy controls and to identify the factors that influence the changes in the gut microbiota.Methods: We constructed an intrauterine hypoxia model in rats and collected the intestinal contents of intrauterine hypoxic newborn rats and normal newborn rats within 4 h and on the seventh day after birth. They were divided them into the intrauterine hypoxia first-day group (INH1), intrauterine hypoxia seventh-day group (INH7), normal first-day group (NOR1), and normal seventh-day group (NOR7). The contents of the intestines were sequenced with 16S rRNA sequencing, the sequencing results were analyzed for biological information, and the differences in the diversity, richness, and individual taxa among the groups were analyzed.Results: The abundance of the gut microbiota of neonatal rats with intrauterine hypoxia was higher than that of the control group rats. Intrauterine hypoxia altered the structural composition of the gut microbiota in neonatal rats. The INH1 group showed increased species richness, phylogenetic diversity, and β-diversity, and altered relative abundance in several taxa compared to those in the control group. The differences in the microbiota among the four groups were significantly higher than those within the group, and the differences in the abundance and diversity of the INH7 and NOR7 groups decreased after 7 days of suckling. Functional analysis based on the Cluster of Orthologous Groups (COG) suggested that 23 functional COG categories. There was no significant difference in the functional categories between the hypoxia group and the normal group.Conclusion: Intrauterine hypoxia changed the initial colonization of the gut microbiota in neonatal rats. It could increase the species richness and β-diversity of the gut microbiota, and altered relative abundances of several taxa. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-240c8d49a63e4b07936cd41f8af9df572022-12-21T23:18:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Pediatrics2296-23602021-04-01910.3389/fped.2021.675022675022Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn RatsYan SunLei LiJiayu SongWei MaoKaihao XiaoChunming JiangBackground: Accumulating evidence suggests a connection between the gut microbiota and neonatal diseases. Hypoxia may play an important role in the intestinal lesions in neonates.Objective: This study aims to determine whether the gut microbiota differs between intrauterine hypoxic rats and healthy controls and to identify the factors that influence the changes in the gut microbiota.Methods: We constructed an intrauterine hypoxia model in rats and collected the intestinal contents of intrauterine hypoxic newborn rats and normal newborn rats within 4 h and on the seventh day after birth. They were divided them into the intrauterine hypoxia first-day group (INH1), intrauterine hypoxia seventh-day group (INH7), normal first-day group (NOR1), and normal seventh-day group (NOR7). The contents of the intestines were sequenced with 16S rRNA sequencing, the sequencing results were analyzed for biological information, and the differences in the diversity, richness, and individual taxa among the groups were analyzed.Results: The abundance of the gut microbiota of neonatal rats with intrauterine hypoxia was higher than that of the control group rats. Intrauterine hypoxia altered the structural composition of the gut microbiota in neonatal rats. The INH1 group showed increased species richness, phylogenetic diversity, and β-diversity, and altered relative abundance in several taxa compared to those in the control group. The differences in the microbiota among the four groups were significantly higher than those within the group, and the differences in the abundance and diversity of the INH7 and NOR7 groups decreased after 7 days of suckling. Functional analysis based on the Cluster of Orthologous Groups (COG) suggested that 23 functional COG categories. There was no significant difference in the functional categories between the hypoxia group and the normal group.Conclusion: Intrauterine hypoxia changed the initial colonization of the gut microbiota in neonatal rats. It could increase the species richness and β-diversity of the gut microbiota, and altered relative abundances of several taxa.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.675022/fullintrauterine hypoxiagut microbiotahigh-throughput sequencingnewborn ratscolonizationdiversity |
| spellingShingle | Yan Sun Lei Li Jiayu Song Wei Mao Kaihao Xiao Chunming Jiang Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats Frontiers in Pediatrics intrauterine hypoxia gut microbiota high-throughput sequencing newborn rats colonization diversity |
| title | Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats |
| title_full | Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats |
| title_fullStr | Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats |
| title_short | Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats |
| title_sort | intrauterine hypoxia changed the colonization of the gut microbiota in newborn rats |
| topic | intrauterine hypoxia gut microbiota high-throughput sequencing newborn rats colonization diversity |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.675022/full |
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