Oral Microbiota Changes in Elderly Patients, an Indicator of Alzheimer's Disease

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case-control

Citation

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33921182

DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.

10.3390/ijerph18084211

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Authors

Wu YF, Lee WF, Salamanca E, Yao WL, Su JN, Wang SY, Hu CJ, Chang WJ

Journal

International journal of environmental research and public health

Year

2021

Keywords:

Alzheimer’s disease, dental hygiene, neuroscience/neurobiology, oral health, oral microbiota, plaque/plaque biofilms

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually affects older individuals. Owing to the higher incidence of root caries and missing teeth in elderly individuals, the bacteria involved in these dental concerns might potentially deteriorate their cognitive function. Altered microbiota in the oral cavity may induce neuroinflammation through migration from the oral cavity to the brain. However, the correlation between the composition of the oral microbiota and neurodegenerative disease remains unclear. In this study, we evaluated sequence to determine the relative abundance and diversity of bacterial taxa in the dental plaque of elderly patients with AD and controls. Oral samples; the DMFT index; and other clinical examination data were collected from 17 patients with AD and 18 normal elderly individuals as the control group. Patients with AD had significantly more missing teeth and higher dental plaque weight but lower microbial diversity than controls. Significantly increased numbers of Lactobacillales, Streptococcaceae, and Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes and a significantly decreased number of Fusobacterium were observed in patients with AD. In conclusion, using the PacBio single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing platform to survey the microbiota dysbiosis biomarkers in the oral cavity of elderly individuals could serve as a tool to identify patients with AD.

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Location of subjects: Taiwan

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: Dental plaque Bacterial plaque,Plaque,Dental plaque,dental plaque

Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies: Controls

Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies: Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients

Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group: Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group: 18

Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group: 17

Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any): 2 months

Lab analysis

Sequencing type: 16S

16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene: Not specified

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).: relative abundances