Pilla Rachel, Guard Blake C, Blake Amanda B, Ackermann Mark, Webb Craig, Hill Steve, Lidbury Jonathan A, Steiner Jörg M, Jergens Albert E, Suchodolski Jan S
Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Aug 25;11(9):2498. doi: 10.3390/ani11092498.
The long-term impact of treatment of dogs with steroid-responsive enteropathy (SRE) on the fecal microbiome and metabolome has not been investigated. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the fecal microbiome and metabolome of dogs with SRE before, during, and following treatment with standard immunosuppressive therapy and an elimination diet. We retrospectively selected samples from 9 dogs with SRE enrolled in a previous clinical trial, which received treatment for 8 weeks, and had achieved remission as indicated by the post-treatment clinical scores. Long-term (1 year) samples were obtained from a subset (5/9) of dogs. Samples from 13 healthy dogs were included as controls (HC). We evaluated the microbiome using 16S rRNA sequencing and qPCR. To evaluate the recovery of gut function, we measured fecal metabolites using an untargeted approach. While improvement was observed for some bacterial taxa after 8 weeks of treatment, several bacterial taxa remained significantly different from HC. Seventy-five metabolites were altered in dogs with SRE, including increased fecal amino acids and vitamins, suggesting malabsorption as a component of SRE. One year after treatment, however, all bacterial species were evaluated by qPCR and 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and all but thirteen metabolites were no longer different from healthy controls.
类固醇反应性肠病(SRE)犬接受治疗对其粪便微生物组和代谢组的长期影响尚未得到研究。因此,本研究旨在评估SRE犬在接受标准免疫抑制治疗和排除饮食治疗前、治疗期间及治疗后的粪便微生物组和代谢组。我们回顾性地从9只参与先前一项临床试验的SRE犬中选取样本,这些犬接受了8周的治疗,并且根据治疗后的临床评分显示已实现缓解。长期(1年)样本取自部分(5/9)犬。将13只健康犬的样本作为对照(HC)。我们使用16S rRNA测序和qPCR评估微生物组。为评估肠道功能的恢复情况,我们采用非靶向方法测量粪便代谢物。虽然治疗8周后观察到一些细菌类群有所改善,但仍有几个细菌类群与HC有显著差异。SRE犬中有75种代谢物发生改变,包括粪便氨基酸和维生素增加,提示吸收不良是SRE的一个组成部分。然而,治疗一年后,通过qPCR和16S rRNA基因测序对所有细菌种类进行评估,除了13种代谢物外,其余所有代谢物与健康对照不再有差异。