PMID- 30692975 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 1664-302X (Print) IS - 1664-302X (Electronic) IS - 1664-302X (Linking) VI - 9 DP - 2018 TI - Comparative Evaluation of Microbiota Engraftment Following Fecal Microbiota Transfer in Mice Models: Age, Kinetic and Microbial Status Matter. PG - 3289 LID - 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03289 [doi] LID - 3289 AB - The intestinal microbiota and its functions are intricately interwoven with host physiology. Colonizing rodents with donor microbiota provides insights into host-microbiota interactions characterization and the understanding of disease physiopathology. However, a better assessment of inoculation methods and recipient mouse models is needed. Here, we compare the engraftment at short and long term of genetically obese mice microbiota in germ-free (GF) mice and juvenile and adult specific pathogen free (SPF) mice. We also tested the effects of initial microbiota depletion before microbiota transfer. In the present work, donor microbiota engraftment was better in juvenile SPF mice than in adult SPF mice. In juvenile mice, initial microbiota depletion using laxatives or antibiotics improved donor microbiota engraftment 9 weeks but not 3 weeks after microbiota transfer. Microbiota-depleted juvenile mice performed better than GF mice 3 weeks after the microbiota transfer. However, 9 weeks after transfer, colonized GF mice microbiota had the lowest Unifrac distance to the donor microbiota. Colonized GF mice were also characterized by a chronic alteration in intestinal absorptive function. With these collective results, we show that the use of juvenile mice subjected to initial microbiota depletion constitutes a valid alternative to GF mice in microbiota transfer studies. FAU - Le Roy, Tiphaine AU - Le Roy T AD - NutriOmics Team, INSERM, ICAN, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France. FAU - Debedat, Jean AU - Debedat J AD - NutriOmics Team, INSERM, ICAN, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France. FAU - Marquet, Florian AU - Marquet F AD - NutriOmics Team, INSERM, ICAN, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France. FAU - Da-Cunha, Carla AU - Da-Cunha C AD - NutriOmics Team, INSERM, ICAN, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France. FAU - Ichou, Farid AU - Ichou F AD - ICANalytics Facility Core, Institut de Cardiometabolisme et Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France. FAU - Guerre-Millo, Michele AU - Guerre-Millo M AD - NutriOmics Team, INSERM, ICAN, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France. FAU - Kapel, Nathalie AU - Kapel N AD - Department of Functional Coprology, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France. FAU - Aron-Wisnewsky, Judith AU - Aron-Wisnewsky J AD - NutriOmics Team, INSERM, ICAN, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France. AD - Department of Nutrition, CRNH Ile de France, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France. FAU - Clement, Karine AU - Clement K AD - NutriOmics Team, INSERM, ICAN, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France. AD - Department of Nutrition, CRNH Ile de France, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190114 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Microbiol JT - Frontiers in microbiology JID - 101548977 PMC - PMC6339881 OTO - NOTNLM OT - FMT fecal microbiota transplant OT - SPF OT - adult OT - antibiotics OT - germ-free animals OT - microbiota OT - polyethylene glycol OT - weaning (severage) EDAT- 2019/01/30 06:00 MHDA- 2019/01/30 06:01 PMCR- 2019/01/14 CRDT- 2019/01/30 06:00 PHST- 2018/08/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/12/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/01/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/01/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/01/30 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/14 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03289 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Microbiol. 2019 Jan 14;9:3289. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03289. eCollection 2018.