Project description:To explore the effects of gut microbiota of young (8 weeks) or old mice (18～20 months) on stroke, feces of young (Y1-Y9) and old mice (O6-O16) were collected and analyzed by 16s rRNA sequencing. Then stroke model was established on young mouse receive feces from old mouse (DOT1-15) and young mouse receive feces from young mouse (DYT1-15). 16s rRNA sequencing were also performed for those young mice received feces from young and old mice.
Project description:16S rRNA V3-V4 amplicon sequencing was performed on fecal samples from 12 male C57BL/6J mice across three groups (4 replicates each): Control (distilled water, 3 days), Model (distilled water, 3 days + APAP 300 mg/kg i.p.), and PoH (PO extract 3 g/kg p.o. daily for 3 days + APAP 300 mg/kg i.p.). Sequencing was performed on an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform using paired-end 250bp reads.
Project description:Age-dependent changes of the gut-associated microbiome have been linked to increased frailty and systemic inflammation. This study found that age-associated changes of the gut microbiome of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice could be reverted by co-housing of aged (22 months old) and adult (3 months old) mice for 30-40 days or faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from adult into aged mice. This was demonstrated using high-throughput sequencing of the V3-V4 hypervariable region of bacterial 16S rRNA gene isolated from faecal pellets collected from 3-4 months old adult and 22-23 months old aged mice before and after co-housing or FMT.
