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- Ulmus macrocarpa Hance extract modulates intestinal microbiota in healthy adults: a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial
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Kwangmin Kim , Karpagam Veerappan , Nahyun Woo , Bohyeon Park , Sathishkumar Natarajan , Hoyong Chung , Cheolmin Kim , Junhyung Park
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J. Microbiol. 2021;59(12):1150-1156. Published online October 26, 2021
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-021-1329-8
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The stem and root bark of Ulmus macrocarpa Hance has been
used as traditional pharmacological agent against inflammation
related disorders. The objective of this study was to explore
the impact of Ulmus macrocarpa Hance extract (UME)
on human gut microbiota. A randomized placebo-controlled
clinical study was conducted in healthy adults. The study subjects
were given 500 mg/day of UME or placebo orally for 4
weeks. Eighty fecal samples were collected at baseline and 4
weeks of UME or placebo intervention. The gut microbiota
variation was evaluated by 16S rRNA profiling. The microbial
response was highly personalized, and no statistically significant
differences was observed in both species richness
and abundance. The number of bacterial species identified
in study subjects ranged from 86 to 182 species. The analysis
for taxonomical changes revealed an increase in Eubacterium
ventriosum, Blautia faecis, Ruminococcus gnavus in the UME
group. Functional enrichment of bacterial genes showed an
increase in primary and secondary bile acid biosynthesis in
UME group. Having known from previous studies Eubacterium
regulated bile acid homeostasis in protecting gut microbial
architecture and immunity, we suggest that UME supplementation
might enhance host immunity by modulating
gut microbiota. This is the first stage study and forthcoming
clinical studies with larger participants are needed to confirm
these findings.
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J. Microbiol. 2020;58(3):193-205. Published online February 27, 2020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-020-9556-y
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Recent studies on microbiome highlighted their importance
in various environments including human, where they are
involved in multiple biological contexts such as immune mechanism,
drug response, and metabolism. The rapid increase
of new findings in microbiome research is partly due to the
technological advances in microbiome identification, including
the next-generation sequencing technologies. Several applications
of different next-generation sequencing platforms
exist for microbiome identification, but the most popular method
is using short-read sequencing technology to profile targeted
regions of 16S rRNA genes of microbiome because of
its low-cost and generally reliable performance of identifying
overall microbiome compositions. The analysis of targeted
16S rRNA sequencing data requires multiple steps of data processing
and systematic analysis, and many software tools have
been proposed for such procedures. However, properly organizing
and using such software tools still require certain
level of expertise with computational environments. The purpose
of this article is introducing the concept of computational
analysis of 16S rRNA sequencing data to microbiologists
and providing easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions
of using recent software tools of microbiome analysis.
This instruction may be used as a quick guideline for general
next-generation sequencing-based microbiome studies or a
template of constructing own software pipelines for customized
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