Variations of Tongue Coating Microbiota in Patients with Gastric Cancer

Study information

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study design

case-control

Citation

PMID PubMed identifier for scientific articles.

26457297

DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.

10.1155/2015/173729

URI

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.

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Subjects

Location of subjects: China

Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled (if applicable): Homo sapiens

Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology: Tongue Glossus,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

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