Higher levels of Bifidobacteria and tumor necrosis factor in children with drug-resistant epilepsy are associated with anti-seizure response to the ketogenic diet/Experiment 2

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-6-11

Curated date: 2025/05/21

Curator: Victoria

Revision editor(s): Victoria

Subjects

Location of subjects
Sweden
Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled. Contact us to have more species added.
Homo sapiens
Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology
Feces Cow dung,Cow pat,Droppings,Dung,Excrement,Excreta,Faeces,Fecal material,Fecal matter,Fewmet,Frass,Guano,Matières fécales@fr,Merde@fr,Ordure,Partie de la merde@fr,Piece of shit,Porción de mierda@es,Portion of dung,Portion of excrement,Portion of faeces,Portion of fecal material,Portion of fecal matter,Portion of feces,Portion of guano,Portion of scat,Portionem cacas,Scat,Spoor,Spraint,Stool,Teil der fäkalien@de,Feces,feces
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Response to ketogenic diet Response to ketogenic diet,response to ketogenic diet
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Decreasing correlation in non-responders before ketogenic diet (NR_Ep1)
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Increasing correlation in non-responders before ketogenic diet (NR_Ep1)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
This group consists of children with a < 50% reduction before ketogenic diet treatment.
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
3 months

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
WMS
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
Not specified
Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
Illumina

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
centered log-ratio
Statistical test
Spearman Correlation
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.05
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
No


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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-6-11

Curated date: 2025/05/21

Curator: Victoria

Revision editor(s): Victoria

Source: Figure 4B

Description: Spearman's correlation of members of the B. longum cluster.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Increasing correlation in non-responders before ketogenic diet (NR_Ep1)

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Bifidobacterium breve JCM 7019
Bifidobacterium longum DJO10A
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis ATCC 15697 = JCM 1222 = DSM 20088
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum JDM301

Revision editor(s): Victoria