Abstract Title:

Prolonged antibiotic treatment induces a diabetogenic intestinal microbiome that accelerates diabetes in NOD mice.

Abstract Source:

ISME J. 2015 Aug 14. Epub 2015 Aug 14. PMID: 26274050

Abstract Author(s):

Kirsty Brown, Artem Godovannyi, Caixia Ma, YiQun Zhang, Zahra Ahmadi-Vand, Chaunbin Dai, Monika A Gorzelak, YeeKwan Chan, Justin M Chan, Arion Lochner, Jan P Dutz, Bruce A Vallance, Deanna L Gibson

Article Affiliation:

Kirsty Brown

Abstract:

Accumulating evidence supports that the intestinal microbiome is involved in Type 1 diabetes (T1D) pathogenesis through the gut-pancreas nexus. Our aim was to determine whether the intestinal microbiota in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse model played a role in T1D through the gut. To examine the effect of the intestinal microbiota on T1D onset, we manipulated gut microbes by: (1) the fecal transplantation between non-obese diabetic (NOD) and resistant (NOR) mice and (2) the oral antibiotic and probiotic treatment of NOD mice. We monitored diabetes onset, quantified CD4+T cells in the Peyer's patches, profiled the microbiome and measured fecal short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). The gut microbiota from NOD mice harbored more pathobionts and fewer beneficial microbes in comparison with NOR mice. Fecal transplantation of NOD microbes induced insulitis in NOR hosts suggesting that the NOD microbiome is diabetogenic. Moreover, antibiotic exposure accelerated diabetes onset in NOD mice accompanied by increased T-helper type 1 (Th1) and reduced Th17 cells in the intestinal lymphoid tissues. The diabetogenic microbiome was characterized by a metagenome altered in several metabolic gene clusters. Furthermore, diabetes susceptibility correlated with reduced fecal SCFAs. In an attempt to correct the diabetogenic microbiome, we administered VLS#3 probiotics to NOD mice but found that VSL#3 colonized the intestine poorly and did not delay diabetes. We conclude that NOD mice harbor gut microbes that induce diabetes and that their diabetogenic microbiome can be amplified early in life through antibiotic exposure. Protective microbes like VSL#3 are insufficient to overcome the effects of a diabetogenic microbiome.The ISME Journal advance online publication, 14 August 2015; doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.114.

Study Type : Animal Study
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Additional Keywords : Microbiome : CK(311) : AC(69)
Problem Substances : Antibiotics : CK(703) : AC(160)
Adverse Pharmacological Actions : Diabetogenic : CK(340) : AC(58)

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