Variations of Tongue Coating Microbiota in Patients with Gastric Cancer

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Authors
Hu J, Han S, Chen Y, Ji Z
Journal
BioMed research international
Year
2015
The physical status of humans can be estimated by observing the appearance of the tongue coating, known as tongue diagnosis. The goals of this study were to reveal the relationship between tongue coating appearance and the oral microbiota in patients with gastric cancer and to open a novel research direction supporting tongue diagnosis. We used a tongue manifestation acquisition instrument to analyse the thickness of the tongue coating of patients with gastric cancer and that of healthy controls, and high-throughput sequencing was used to describe the microbial community of the tongue coating by sequencing the V2-V4 region of the 16S rDNA. The tongue coatings of 74 patients with gastric cancer were significantly thicker than those of 72 healthy controls (343.11 ± 198.22 versus 98.42 ± 48.25, P < 0.001); 51.35% of the patients were assessed as having thick tongue coatings, whereas all healthy controls were assessed as having thin tongue coatings. Thick tongue coatings presented lower microbial community diversity than thin tongue coatings. The tongue coating bacterial community is associated with the appearance of the tongue coating. The tongue coating may be a potential source for diagnosing gastric cancer, but its sensitivity needs to be further improved.

Experiment 1


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Subjects

Location of subjects
China
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
Tongue Glossus,Tongue,tongue
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Gastric cancer Ca body - stomach,ca greater curvature of stomach,Ca lesser curvature - stomach,cancer of stomach,gastric cancer,gastric cancer, intestinal,gastric neoplasm,malignant gastric neoplasm,malignant gastric tumor,malignant neoplasm of body of stomach,malignant neoplasm of lesser curve of stomach,malignant neoplasm of stomach,malignant neoplasm of the stomach,malignant stomach neoplasm,malignant tumor of body of stomach,malignant tumor of greater curve of stomach,malignant tumor of lesser curve of stomach,malignant tumor of stomach,malignant tumor of the stomach,stomach cancer,Gastric cancer
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
gastric cancer
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
gastric cancer
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
16
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
34
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
V2-V4
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).
relative abundances
Statistical test
T-Test
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

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
decreased
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
decreased

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Source: Table 4, text

Description: Relative abundances of selected tongue coating microbial taxa in 34 gastric cancer subjects and 16 control subjects.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in gastric cancer

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Prevotella
Streptococcus
Veillonella
Actinomyces
Leptotrichia
Actinomycetota

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Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Rimsha Azhar

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Source: Table 4, text

Description: Relative abundances of selected tongue coating microbial taxa in 34 gastric cancer subjects and 16 control subjects.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in gastric cancer

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Neisseria
Fusobacterium
Haemophilus
Porphyromonas
Pseudomonadota
Streptococcus

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