Project description:16S amplicon sequence analysis of saliva from patients with pediatric Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis compared with Ulcerative Colitis and healthy controls
Project description:16S amplicon sequence analysis of stools from patients with pediatric Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis compared with Ulcerative Colitis and healthy controls
Project description:10 saliva samples from patients with primary Sojgren's syndrome and 10 saliva samples from control subjects Experiment Overall Design: Gene profilling from 10 saliva samples from patients with primary Sojgren's syndrome and 10 saliva samples from control subjects using Affymetrix HGu133+2 microarray.
Project description:In this paper, we first report that EC smoking significantly increases the odds of gingival inflammation. Then, we seek to identify and explain the mechanism that underlies the relationship between EC smoking and gingival inflammation via the oral microbiome. We performed mediation analyses to assess if EC smoking affects the oral microbiome, which in turn affects gingival inflammation. For this, we collected saliva and subgingival samples from EC users and non-users and profiled their microbial compositions via 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. We then performed α-diversity, β-diversity, and taxonomic differential analyses to survey the disparity in microbial composition between EC users and non-users. We found significant increases in α-diversity in EC users and disparities in β-diversity between EC users and non-users.
