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    Depletion of Cultivatable Gut Microbiota by Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Pretreatment Worsens Outcome After Murine Stroke (2016)

    Art
    Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag
    Autoren
    Winek, Katarzyna
    Engel, Odilo
    Koduah, Priscilla
    Heimesaat, Markus M
    Fischer, André
    Bereswill, Stefan
    Dames, Claudia
    Kershaw, Olivia (WE 12)
    Gruber, Achim D (WE 12)
    Curato, Caterina
    Oyama, Naoki
    Meisel, Christian
    Meisel, Andreas
    Dirnagl, Ulrich
    Quelle
    Stroke : a journal of cerebral circulation
    Bandzählung: 47
    Heftzählung: 5
    Seiten: 1354 – 1363
    ISSN: 1524-4628
    Sprache
    Englisch
    Verweise
    DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.011800
    Pubmed: 27056982
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    Abstract / Zusammenfassung

    Antibiotics disturbing microbiota are often used in treatment of poststroke infections. A bidirectional brain-gut microbiota axis was recently suggested as a modulator of nervous system diseases. We hypothesized that gut microbiota may be an important player in the course of stroke.

    We investigated the outcome of focal cerebral ischemia in C57BL/6J mice after an 8-week decontamination with quintuple broad-spectrum antibiotic cocktail. These microbiota-depleted animals were subjected to 60 minutes middle cerebral artery occlusion or sham operation. Infarct volume was measured using magnetic resonance imaging, and mice were monitored clinically throughout the whole experiment. At the end point, tissues were preserved for further analysis, comprising histology and immunologic investigations using flow cytometry.

    We found significantly decreased survival in the middle cerebral artery occlusion microbiota-depleted mice when the antibiotic cocktail was stopped 3 days before surgery (compared with middle cerebral artery occlusion specific pathogen-free and sham-operated microbiota-depleted mice). Moreover, all microbiota-depleted animals in which antibiotic treatment was terminated developed severe acute colitis. This phenotype was rescued by continuous antibiotic treatment or colonization with specific pathogen-free microbiota before surgery. Further, infarct volumes on day one did not differ between any of the experimental groups.

    Conventional microbiota ensures intestinal protection in the mouse model of experimental stroke and prevents development of acute and severe colitis in microbiota-depleted mice not given antibiotic protection after cerebral ischemia. Our experiments raise the clinically important question as to whether microbial colonization or specific microbiota are crucial for stroke outcome.