Thymic T-Cell Production Is Associated With Changes in the Gut Microbiota in Young Chicks

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第一作者： Cheng, Jiaheng

作者： Cheng, Jiaheng;Yuan, Yushan;Chen, Peng;Li, Ying;Yan, Xia;Luo, Chenglong;Shu, Dingming;Qu, Hao;Ji, Jian;Zhao, Fang;Chen, Jianwei;Chen, Jianwei

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关键词： gut microbiota; T cell; thymus; antibiotic; early life

期刊名称：FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY （ 影响因子：7.561； 五年影响因子：7.624 ）

ISSN： 1664-3224

年卷期： 2021 年 12 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Increasing studies show that gut microbiota play a central role in immunity, although the impact of the microbiota on mediation of thymic T cells throughout life is not well understood. Chickens have been shown to be a valuable model for studying basic immunology. Here, we show that changes in the gut microbiota are associated with the development of thymic T cells in young chickens. Our results showed that T-cell numbers in newborn chicks sharply increased from day 0 and peaked at day 49. Interestingly, the alpha-diversity score pattern of change in gut microbiota also increased after day 0 and continued to increase until day 49. We found that early antibiotic treatment resulted in a dramatic reduction in gut alpha diversity: principal component analysis (PCA) showed that antibiotic treatment resulted in a different cluster from the controls on days 9 and 49. In the antibiotic-treated chickens, we identified eight significantly different (p < 0.05) microbes at the phylum level and 14 significantly different (p < 0.05) microbes at the genus level, compared with the controls. Importantly, we found that antibiotic treatment led to a decreased percentage and number of T cells in the thymus when measured at days 9 and 49, as evaluated by flow cytometry. Collectively, our data suggest that intestinal microbiota may be involved in the regulation of T cells in birds, presenting the possibility that interventions that actively modify the gut microbiota in early life may accelerate the maturation of humoral immunity, with resulting anti-inflammatory effects against different pathogens.

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