Microbiome profiling reveals gut dysbiosis in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease.
Neurobiol Dis
; 135: 104268, 2020 02.
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ABSTRACT
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which is expressed ubiquitously throughout the brain and peripheral tissues. Whilst the focus of much research has been on the cognitive, psychiatric and motor symptoms of HD, the extent of peripheral pathology and its potential impact on central symptoms has been less intensely explored. Disruption of the gastrointestinal microbiome (gut dysbiosis) has been recently reported in a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and therefore we hypothesized that it might also occur in HD. We have used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to characterize the gut microbiome in the R6/1 transgenic mouse model of HD, relative to littermate wild-type controls. We report that there is a significant difference in microbiota composition in HD mice at 12â¯weeks of age. Specifically, we observed an increase in Bacteriodetes and a proportional decrease in Firmicutes in the HD gut microbiome. In addition, we observed an increase in microbial diversity in male HD mice, compared to wild-type controls, but no differences in diversity were observed in female HD mice. The gut dysbiosis observed coincided with impairment in body weight gain despite higher food intake as well as motor deficits at 12â¯weeks of age. Gut dysbiosis was also associated with a change in the gut microenvironment, as we observed higher fecal water content in HD mice at 12â¯weeks of age. This study provides the first evidence of gut dysbiosis in HD.
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Doença de Huntington
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Microbioma Gastrointestinal
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Neurobiol Dis
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NEUROLOGIA
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2020
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