肠道菌群变化对实验小鼠肠黏膜免疫的影响

目的探讨肠道菌群变化对肠黏膜相关淋巴组织的影响。方法通过变性梯度凝胶电泳（Denatu-ring gradient gel electrophoresis,DGGE）法研究了三种不同级别实验小鼠即清洁级小鼠、SPF小鼠和普通小鼠肠道菌群的组成,并用免疫组织化学（immunohistochemistry,IHC）方法研究了此三种不同级别的实验小鼠肠黏膜相关淋巴组织sIgA阳性细胞分布情况。结果普通小鼠肠道细菌种类最多,其sIgA阳性细胞分布最多,肠道不同部位之间sIgA分布情况差异有显著性（P〈0.05）,小肠和大肠之间的阳性细胞分布差异极显著（P〈0.01）;其次是清洁级小鼠,其肠道不同部位之间菌种组成差异无显著性,小肠和大肠之间的阳性细胞分布差异有显著性（P〈0.05）;SPF小鼠肠道细菌种类最少,故其sIgA阳性细胞分布最少,且其肠道不同部位之间菌种组成差异无显著性,小肠和大肠之间的阳性细胞分布差异无显著性（P〉0.05）。结论随着动物微生物控制级别的增高,肠道微生物多样性递减;sIgA阳性细胞与肠道细菌种类正相关。     

水溶性壳聚糖对小鼠肠道菌群的影响

目的 应用聚合酶链式反应-变性梯度凝胶电泳（PCR-DGGE）技术研究水溶性壳聚糖对正常小鼠肠道菌群的影响。方法 使用SPF级昆明小鼠18只,随机分为3组,每组6只,依次为正常对照组（NC）、水溶性壳聚糖高（WSC-H）和低浓度组（WSC-L）,灌服对应药物30 d后收取鼠便,细菌基因组DNA提取,PCR-DGGE电泳得到肠道菌群图谱,计算菌群结构多样性指数,聚类分析相似性并鉴定优势条带序列。结果 水溶性壳聚糖处理后小鼠肠道菌群结构发生改变,多样性指数、丰富度和均匀度较低,乳杆菌成为肠道中的优势菌群。结论 水溶性壳聚糖能够增加肠道中乳杆菌的种类和数量,起到益生元的作用来调节肠道微生态平衡。     

2型糖尿病BKS-DB小鼠的小肠菌群结构差异性分析

研究肠道中的微生物群落与糖尿病之间的关系,对于预防治疗糖尿病具有十分重要的意义.以10只2型糖尿病小鼠和10只健康小鼠为对象,通过PCR-DGGE(polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient geleletrophoresis)分子技术分析小鼠小肠菌群结构.实验结果显示,实验组小鼠与对照组小鼠在多样性指数、丰富度指数及优势度指数上存在差异,对照组小鼠小肠内容物的菌群种类及数量明显高于实验组小鼠;而两组小鼠的小肠内容物的优势菌种类及相对含量却相似.特异性条带测序结果显示,正常小鼠小肠内含有乳杆菌,而实验组小鼠小肠内含量很低,甚至检测不到.该结果提示了乳杆菌和2型糖尿病之间的关系.     

两种不同品系小鼠的人源菌群模型的建立与肠道菌群的比较

目的 比较KM(封闭群)和C57 BL/6J(近交系)两种小鼠人源菌群(Human flora-associated,HFA)模型的构建过程中小鼠肠道菌群的动态变化以及定植效果.方法 通过向无菌KM和C57BL/6J小鼠体内同时灌喂同一健康人的新鲜粪便,于灌喂后1、2和4周分别收集小鼠新鲜粪便.采用变性梯度凝胶电泳(Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis,DGGE)技术评价人肠道菌群在两种无菌小鼠体内的定植规律和定植效果.结果 两种小鼠的菌群条带数随时间的推移而明显增加,到第4周,两种品系的小鼠的菌群的一致性均略有增高,趋于稳定.UPGMA聚类分析显示,两种小鼠分别聚在了不同的聚类枝上;并且二者在Shannon-Wiener指数上差异有统计学意义(P＜0.05),在条带数S和与供体人的相似性差异有统计学意义(P＜0.01),且C57BL/6J HFA小鼠模型更接近人.结论 不同遗传背景的小鼠对肠道菌群具有选择性的定植效果,在多样性和与供体菌群的相似性方面,C57BL/6J HFA小鼠模型要优于KM HFA小鼠模型.     

茶多酚对ApoE~(-/-)小鼠肠道菌群多样性的影响

目的以高脂饲料饲养的SPF级C57 BL/6 ApoE-/-小鼠作为动物模型,研究茶多酚采食对其肠道菌群多样性的影响。方法通过随机饮水的方式给予ApoE-/-小鼠0.4、0.8和1.6 g/L的茶多酚,处理14 d时用PCR-DGGE分析对照组(CK)和茶多酚组小鼠新鲜粪便中肠道菌群的相似性和多样性。结果 UPGMA聚类分析表明,低剂量茶多酚组(LTP)、中剂量茶多酚组(MTP)这两组与对照组(CK)、高剂量茶多酚组(HTP)聚为两大簇。PCA分析显示,LTP组与CK组、MTP组、HTP组分别聚集在不同位置,有明显界限;多样性数据分析显示:CK组DGGE图谱的丰富度和Shannon-Wiener指数(H')与茶多酚组差异无统计学意义(P0.05);CK组与MTP组的均匀度(E)差异存在统计学意义(P0.05,P=0.015),说明中剂量茶多酚作用14 d后与对照组肠道菌群的菌群分配相比均一性显著下降。结论连续处理14 d时CK组与LTP组、MTP组小鼠肠道菌群差异有统计学意义,即茶多酚对ApoE-/-小鼠肠道菌群多样性有显著影响。     

PCR-DGGE指纹图谱技术分析2型糖尿病模型小鼠胃微生物菌群结构

糖尿病患者多出现胃肠道功能紊乱,如急性胃炎、胃溃疡,以及胃动力低下,胃排空延迟、胃内细菌过度滋长等,进一步导致肠道疾病。研究糖尿病胃内容物菌群结构变化对研究糖尿病发病机理及并发症治疗具有重要意义。该项研究采用变性梯度凝胶电泳技术,对10只2型糖尿病模型小鼠及10只正常对照小鼠进行胃内容物和粘膜样本菌群结构研究。结果表明,实验组小鼠与对照组小鼠胃内容物和粘膜菌群条带数、多样性指数、丰富度指数、均匀度指数与优势度指数均无显著差异,且相似度系数差异不明显。而特异条带测序结果显示正常小鼠胃内含乳杆菌,实验组小鼠胃内乳杆菌含量很低甚至检测不到。提示胃内乳杆菌与2型糖尿病密切相关。     

血液恶性肿瘤患者肠道菌群分析

目的 将血液恶性肿瘤患者肠道菌群与健康个体进行比较,观察血液肿瘤患者肠道菌群结构的变化,探讨肠道菌群与血液恶性肿瘤发生发展的联系。方法 收集血液恶性肿瘤患者与健康志愿者粪便样品,提取样品中菌群总DNA,然后通过变性凝胶梯度电泳（DGGE）技术分析肠道菌群多样性和差异性。结果 血液恶性肿瘤组与健康组肠道菌群的DGGE指纹图谱有明显差异。与正常组相比,患者组肠道大肠埃希菌呈现过度增长趋势,有益菌柔嫩梭菌减少或缺失,某些患者肠道内一些细菌呈现特异性增长,如粪肠球菌、硫磺肠球菌、约氏不动杆菌等。结论 与健康对照组相比,血液恶性肿瘤患者肠道菌群结构与多样性发生改变,这可能为血液恶性肿瘤早期抗感染提供实验依据。     

四种小鼠肠道微生物DNA提取方法比较

采用异硫氰酸胍(guandine thiocyanate,GITC)法、Tiangen DNA提取试剂盒、Omega DNA提取试剂盒和广泛应用的十六烷基三甲基溴化铵(hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide,CTAB)法提取小鼠粪便微生物总DNA,通过比较所提取DNA的浓度和纯度,发现粪便DNA提取试剂盒提取的DNA纯度最高但浓度最低;CTAB法所得的DNA浓度最高但纯度最低;GITC法所得DNA的浓度高于粪便DNA提取试剂盒,纯度高于CTAB法。通过变性梯度凝胶电泳(16S r DNA-PCR-DGGE)指纹图谱分析技术进一步比较了各种提取方法所代表微生物群落的丰富度和多样性。结果表明,GITC法提取得到的DNA所代表细菌的丰富度和多样性显著高于其他3种方法。本实验所建立的GITC法可更全面地反映肠道微生物的多样性和群落结构,是一种较为理想的粪便微生物DNA提取方法。     

转Bt基因稻谷对小鼠生理与生殖的影响

目的:通过对小鼠饲以Bt转基因稻谷,观察Bt转基因稻谷对小鼠的生理与生殖能力的影响,为评价Bt转基因稻谷的安全性提供科学依据.方法:将雌、雄昆明小鼠48只分开饲养,各按体重随机分为转基因稻谷组和非转基因稻谷组,饲以对应的稻谷进行90天喂养试验,检测相关生理与生殖指标.结果:与非转基因稻谷组相比,饲以Bt转基因稻谷组小鼠...     

2型糖尿病小鼠食道菌群的结构分析

人体内庞大的微生物群体对人体有着巨大的影响.越来越多的数据表明,肠道菌群与肥胖症、糖尿病等代谢性疾病的发生密切相关.食道菌群结构对研究胃肠道及整个消化 系统菌群结构至关重要.针对10只2型糖尿病模型小鼠及10只正常对照小鼠食道样本,进行变性梯度凝胶电泳（DGGE）和克隆测序分析食道菌群结构.结果发现,实验组小鼠与对照组小鼠食道菌群多样性指数与丰富度指数存在显著差异,均匀度指数无显著差 异.说明正常小鼠较2型糖尿病小鼠食道菌群种类及数量较大,优势菌种类及相对含量相似.测序结果显示,正常小鼠食道内含乳杆菌属细菌,而患病小鼠食道内不含乳杆菌属细菌或含量极低.提示乳杆菌属细菌与2型糖尿病密切相关,实验结果对研究糖尿病发病机理及并发症治疗有重要意义.     

Motivational and Heritable Determinants of Dispersal Latency in Wild Male House Mice (Mus musculus musculus)

Divergence of dispersal regimens has been suggested to be the selective basis for the evolutionary differentiation of agonistic phenotypes found in natural populations of house mice. Dispersal propensity may, therefore, be expected to exhibit heritable variation in wild house mice, ultimately related to motivational differences causing observable differences in agonistic behaviour. To test for heritable components in dispersal propensity in wild house mice, father–offspring regressions of dispersal latencies from residential social groups were determined in standardized seminatural social settings. To evaluate potential motivational causes of phenotypic variation in dispersal behaviour, all test animals (fathers, sons, and daughters) were scored prior to the dispersal experiment in a standardized behavioural test, at 60 d of age. Activities were monitored in a 1 m² square test arena during 10‐min observation periods. Test arenas exhibited four equidistant openings leading to cages containing fresh, own, sibling, or foreign bedding material. The apparatus allowed for scoring anxiety, exploratory activity, and kin preference. Subsequently, test animals were exposed to a resident population in a semi‐natural enclosure providing a dispersal opportunity. Father–son regressions of dispersal latencies were significantly positive, but no significant relationship was found for daughters. Dispersal latency decreased with increasing exploratory activity scores in males, but increased in females. Anxiety as well as kin preferences did not affect dispersal propensity. Hence sex‐linked, motivational components reflect heritable social behaviour variation in male house mice that may ultimately be caused by diverging dispersal regimens.     

Oxytocin and Social Preference in Female House Mice (Mus musculus domesticus)

In social species, same‐sex individuals may form social bonds behaviourally expressed as individual preferences, resulting in fitness benefits such as increased offspring survival, longevity and group cohesion. As a result of individual preferences, female house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) form social affiliations while communally nursing and may do so with kin or non‐kin. However, the mechanisms behind the formation of such preferences are unknown. Oxytocin has been linked to a range of social behaviours including bond facilitation, social memory and parental care. Here, we experimentally increased oxytocin in pairs of unfamiliar, unrelated females and predicted that females with elevated oxytocin would demonstrate increased affiliative behaviours compared against a control. Subsequently, we tested for the formation of a social preference, using a preference test with the previous partner and a new unfamiliar female. Our results indicated no significant effect of treatment on positive and negative behaviours between females during the three initial cohabitation days. In both treatments, females demonstrated increased socio‐positive behaviours and cohabitation time with their partner and decreased socio‐negative behaviours and latency to meet, over the 3‐d period. During the partner preference test, control but not oxytocin females demonstrated a significant preference for their cohabitation partner, and oxytocin females spent similar amounts of time with both stimulus females. Therefore, increasing peripheral oxytocin appears not to be involved in the facilitation of initial encounters with a stranger but may hinder the formation of a preference for this new partner.     

Effects of Different Types of Bedding Materials on Behavioral Development in Laboratory CD1 Mice (Mus musculus)

Male and female mice were housed in cages, containing different types of bedding materials (wood flakes or pulp chips), from 4 weeks of age in the F₀ generation to 11 weeks of age in the F₁ generation; selected reproductive and neurobehavioral parameters were measured in the F₁ generation. There were no adverse effects of bedding materials on litter size, litter weight, or sex ratios at the time of birth. With regard to behavioral development parameters, bedding materials did not influence any variables (p > 0.05) in both sexes. Regarding exploratory behavior in the F₁ generation, number of defecations significantly varied (p = 0.0203) with bedding materials in males at 3 weeks of age. The number of horizontal activities also significantly varied (p = 0.0342) with bedding materials in males at 8 weeks of age. Multiple‐T water maze performance data indicated that the time required was significantly shortened across trials in pulp chips group than wood flakes group in males (p = 0.0211). Moreover, all spontaneous behavior variables in males significantly varied with bedding materials, particularly the average time of movement was significantly different (p = 0.0037) in distance between parallel lines of types of bedding materials in the F₁ generation. The present study shows that bedding materials influence the neurobehavioral development in mice     

Mice (Mus musculus) lacking a vomeronasal organ can discriminate MHC-determined odortypes

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in mammals (H-2 in mice) play a major role in regulating immune function. They also bestow individuality in the form of a chemical signature or odortype. At present, the respective contributions of the olfactory epithelium and the vomeronasal organ (VNO) in the recognition of individual odortypes are not well defined. We examined a possible role for the VNO in the recognition of MHC odortypes in mice by first removing the organ (VNX) and then training the mice to distinguish the odors of two congenic strains of mice that differed only in their MHC type. C57BL/6J mice (bb at H-2) and C57BL/6J-H-2(k) (kk at H-2) provided urine for sensory testing. Eight VNX and six sham-operated mice were trained to make the discrimination. Neither the number of training trials-to-criterion nor the rate of learning differed significantly for VNX and sham-operated mice. We conclude that the VNO is not necessary for learning to discriminate between MHC odortypes.     

Influenza Infection Neutralizes the Attractiveness of Male Odour to Female Mice (Mus musculus)

This study aimed to determine if female house mice, Mus musculus domesticus, are able to assess a male's infection status from odour cues. We collected urine from male mice before, during, and after they were experimentally infected with influenza, a respiratory virus. Females spent more time investigating urine collected from males while they were uninfected than when they were infected. Also 70 % of females released into a large enclosure preferred to nest in boxes containing urine collected from uninfected rather than infected males. This is the first evidence that mice can discriminate virally infected individuals through chemical signals and the first evidence that infection causes odour changes in the urine. To determine if the odour of infected males is repulsive, we presented females with urine samples and neutral water blanks. Normal urine collected from uninfected males was more attractive, whereas urine collected during infection was as attractive as water. This indicates that rather than being aversive, influenza infection abolishes the attractiveness of a male's odour. A similar effect also occurs when male mice are infected with coccidian gut parasites (Kavaliers & Colwell 1995, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 261B, 31–35). One proximate reason for the neutralization of the attractiveness of a male's odour may be a decrease in serum androgen concentrations during infection.     

Infectious Diseases in Wild Mice (Mus musculus) Collected on and around the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Campus

Laboratory mice serve as important models in biomedical research. Monitoring these animals for infections and infestations and excluding causative agents requires extensive resources. Despite advancements in detection and exclusion over the last several years, these activities remain challenging for many institutions. The infections and infestations present in laboratory mouse colonies are well documented, but their mode of introduction is not always known. One possibility is that wild rodents living near vivaria somehow transmit infections to and between the colonies. This study was undertaken to determine what infectious agents the wild mice on the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) campus were carrying. Wild mice were trapped and evaluated for parasites, viruses, and selected bacteria by using histopathology, serology, and PCR-based assays. Results were compared with known infectious agents historically circulating in the vivaria housing mice on campus and were generally different. Although the ectoparasitic burdens found on the 2 populations were similar, the wild mice had a much lower incidence of endoparasites (most notably pinworms). The seroprevalence of some viral infections was also different, with a low prevalence of mouse hepatitis virus among wild mice. Wild mice had a high prevalence of murine cytomegalovirus, an agent now thought to be confined to wild mouse populations. Helicobacter DNA was amplified from more than 90% of the wild mice (59% positive for H. hepaticus). Given the results of this study, we conclude that wild mice likely are not a source of infection for many of the agents that are detected in laboratory mouse colonies at the University of Pennsylvania.Abbreviations: EDIM, epizootic diarrhea of infant mice; MAV, mouse adenovirus; MCMV, murine cytomegalovirus; MFIA, multiplex fluorescent immunoassay; MHV, mouse hepatitis virus; MNV, murine norovirus; MPV, mouse parvovirus; MVM, minute virus of mice; TMEV, Theiler mouse encephalomyelitis virusLaboratory mice constitute the most popular animal models used in biomedical research today. Like all animals, even mice housed in so-called ‘barrier’ facilities are subject to infection. The infectious agents and organisms present in laboratory mouse colonies on the University of Pennsylvania campus are known and documented by the University Laboratory Animal Resources Diagnostic Services Unit. Sentinel mice that are housed on soiled bedding from resident mouse cages are screened onsite at 3 quarterly intervals for fur mites and pinworms and for a panel of viral infections: mouse hepatitis virus (MHV); epizootic diarrhea of infant mice (EDIM) virus; minute virus of mice (MVM); mouse parvovirus (MPV); Theiler mouse encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV); and Sendai virus. Comprehensive bacteriology and parasitology assessments are performed on all sentinels once yearly during the fourth quarter. In addition, these sentinels are screened serologically for 18 viral infections, Mycoplasma pulmonis, cilia-associated respiratory bacillus, and Encephalitozoon cuniculi and by PCR for Helicobacter spp. and M. pulmonis. Mesenteric lymph nodes from sentinels monitoring barrier-maintained colonies are also screened once yearly by PCR for MPV. In addition, University Laboratory Animal Resources maintains a quarantine facility for rodents received from nonapproved sources (sources other than selected commercial breeding facilities). Mice entering the quarantine facility are housed in semirigid isolators, and contact sentinels are tested for all of the agents included in the fourth quarter comprehensive health assessment described, including PCR for MPV.Wild mice (Mus musculus) could serve as a source of infection or infestation in laboratory mouse colonies, although little is known about the prevalence of infectious diseases in wild mouse populations in Philadelphia. However, we have surveyed wild mouse populations in other geographic areas.^1,9 Significant seroprevalence of MHV, EDIM, murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), parvovirus, and thymic virus (murid herpesvirus 3), in addition to the presence of many types of parasites and bacteria including Myocoptes spp., Myobia spp., Radfordia spp., Spironucleus spp., Giardia spp., Pasteurella pneumotropica, Pseudomonas spp., and Leptospira spp. were found in wild populations of mice from farms in southeastern Connecticut.¹ Studies of wild mouse (Mus domesticus) populations in the cereal-growing region of southeastern Australia revealed a high serologic prevalence of MHV, EDIM, and MCMV, as well as significant seroprevalence of mouse adenovirus (MAV), MPV, and reovirus type 3.⁹The goal of the current study was to expand preliminary data obtained from wild mice trapped in the University City district of Philadelphia in 2005 (which are included with the current results from a 2007 survey). These data document the prevalence of various infectious agents and parasites commonly found in populations of wild mice on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia and are discussed in the context of infectious disease outbreaks in campus vivaria over the past 5 y.     

年龄对小家鼠筑巢的影响

为研究不同年龄组小家鼠筑巢能力的差异,分别采用24-h等级法和连续4d巢材获取重量法,对幼年组、亚成年组、成年组小家鼠筑巢能力进行了测定。结果表明:1)小家鼠在亚成年期已具备较强的筑巢能力;2)成年组与亚成年组小家鼠能够快速完成筑巢,24h即可筑成稳定的杯状巢,而幼年组未能筑成稳定巢;3)小家鼠雄性与雌性筑巢能力相当;4)连续4d巢材获取重量表现为成年组>亚成年组,这与两组间身体大小有关,而4d后两组间筑巢等级无显著差异。研究结果提示,不同年龄组的小家鼠均有较强的筑巢需求,筑巢能力基本形成于亚成年期。