Gut Microbiota is different in MS

Chen J, Chia N, Kalari KR, Yao JZ, Novotna M, Soldan MM, Luckey DH, Marietta EV, Jeraldo PR, Chen X, Weinshenker BG, Rodriguez M, Kantarci OH, Nelson H, Murray JA, Mangalam AK. Multiple sclerosis patients have a distinct gut microbiota compared to healthy controls.Sci Rep. 2016 Jun 27;6:28484. doi: 10.1038/srep28484.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease, the etiology of which involves both genetic and environmental factors. The exact nature of the environmental factors responsible for predisposition to MS remains elusive; however, it is hypothesized that gastrointestinal microbiota might play an important role in pathogenesis of MS. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate whether gut microbiota are altered in MS by comparing the fae
cal microbiota in relapsing remitting MS (RRMS) (nā€‰=ā€‰31) patients to that of age- and gender-matched healthy controls (nā€‰=ā€‰36). Phylotype profiles of the gut microbial populations were generated. Detailed faecal microbiome analyses revealed that MS patients had distinct microbial community profile compared to healthy controls. We observed an increased abundance of Psuedomonas, Mycoplana, Haemophilus, Blautia, and Dorea genera in MS patients, whereas control group showed increased abundance of Parabacteroides, Adlercreutzia and Prevotella genera. Thus our study is consistent with the hypothesis that MS patients have gut microbial dysbiosis and further study is needed to better understand their role in the aetiopathogenesis of MS.

Gut bacteria is a hot topic in science as it may help shape the immune response and this study says it is diiferent in MS. This will need repeating. We will see if feacal transplants affect MS as people have this procedure done. But what happened in other studies

Tremlett H, Fadrosh DW, Faruqi AA, Zhu F, Hart J, Roalstad S, Graves J, Lynch S, Waubant E; US Network of Pediatric MS Centers. Eur J Neurol. 2016 May 13. doi: 10.1111/ene.13026. [Epub ahead of print]

"Relative to controls, MS cases had a significant enrichment in relative abundance for members of the Desulfovibrionaceae (Bilophila, Desulfovibrio and Christensenellaceae) and depletion in Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae" 

 or Bacteroidaceae, Faecalibacterium, Ruminococcus, Lactobacillaceae, Clostridium, and other Clostridiales. Compared with the other groups, untreated patients with multiple sclerosis had an increase in the Akkermansia, Faecalibacterium, and Coprococcus genera after vitamin D supplementation.

So no consistency so it is hard to know what this really means

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