Cited by 299Gut microbiota and healthGastrointestinal motility and disordersStress Responses and Cortisol

Gut microbiota composition is correlated to grid floor induced stress and behavior in the BALB/c mouse

Open access
Bangsgaard Bendtsen, Katja Maria, Krych, Lukasz, Sørensen, Dorte Bratbo, Pang, Wanyong, Nielsen, Dennis Sandris, Josefsen, Knud, Hansen, Lars H., Sørensen, Søren J. +1 more·2012·PLoS ONE

Abstract

Stress has profound influence on the gastro-intestinal tract, the immune system and the behavior of the animal. In this study, the correlation between gut microbiota composition determined by Denaturing Grade Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) and tag-encoded 16S rRNA gene amplicon pyrosequencing (454/FLX) and behavior in the Tripletest (Elevated Plus Maze, Light/Dark Box, and Open Field combined), the Tail Suspension Test, and Burrowing in 28 female BALB/c mice exposed to two weeks of grid floor induced stress was investigated. Cytokine and glucose levels were measured at baseline, during and after exposure to grid floor. Stressing the mice clearly changed the cecal microbiota as determined by both DGGE and pyrosequencing. Odoribacter, Alistipes and an unclassified genus from the Coriobacteriaceae family increased significantly in the grid floor housed mice. Compared to baseline, the mice exposed to grid floor housing changed the amount of time spent in the Elevated Plus Maze, in the Light/Dark Box, and burrowing behavior. The grid floor housed mice had significantly longer immobility duration in the Tail Suspension Test and increased their number of immobility episodes from baseline. Significant correlations were found between GM composition and IL-1α, IFN-γ, closed arm entries of Elevated Plus Maze, total time in Elevated Plus Maze, time spent in Light/Dark Box, and time spent in the inner zone of the Open Field as well as total time in the Open Field. Significant correlations were found to the levels of Firmicutes, e.g. various species of Ruminococccaceae and Lachnospiraceae. No significant difference was found for the evaluated cytokines, except an overall decrease in levels from baseline to end. A significant lower level of blood glucose was found in the grid floor housed mice, whereas the HbA1c level was significantly higher. It is concluded that grid floor housing changes the GM composition, which seems to influence certain anxiety-related parameters.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1371/journal.pone.0046231

Cites

69 of 69 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Psychological stress, physical activity, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and antibiotic exposure are modifying factors for the gut microbiome.

    “Other modifying factors (Figure 1) include psychological stress33,34, physical activity35, tobacco use36, alcohol consumption37, and antibiotic exposure38, 39,40.”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 2

  1. [21]Stub C, Sorensen DB, Jegstrup IM, Ritskes-Hoitinga M, Hansen AK (2002) Fluctuating asymmetry of teeth is not a reliable indicator for assessing stress in rats. Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science 29: 149– 153.
  2. [37]Hansen CHF, Nielsen DS, Kverka M, Zakostelka Z, Klimesova K, et al. (2012) Customizing laboratory mice by modifying gut microbiota and immune system development in the early postnatal period. PLoS One (In Press).

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Bangsgaard Bendtsen, K. M., Krych, L., Sørensen, D. B., Pang, W., Nielsen, D. S., Josefsen, K., Hansen, L. H., Sørensen, S. J., & Hansen, A. K.
Affiliations
  • University of Copenhagen (DK)
  • Rigshospitalet (DK)
Venue
PLoS ONE
Published
2012-10-02
Volume
7
Issue
10
Pages
e46231
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2041032345
Cited by
299
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 10
FWCI
6.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Villum Fonden
  • Copenhagen Graduate School for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Gastroenterology › Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
gut microbiota, housing stress, anxiety-like behavior, cecal microbiota, cytokines, blood glucose, HbA1c, elevated plus maze, light-dark box, open field, tail suspension test, burrowing behavior, Odoribacter, Alistipes, Coriobacteriaceae, Firmicutes, Ruminococcaceae, Lachnospiraceae, BALB/c mice
MeSH terms
Animals, Behavior, Animal, Blood Glucose, Female, Hemoglobins, Intestines, Mice, Inbred BALB C, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Stress, Physiological, Cytokines, Maze Learning, Mice, Metagenome

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review