Assessment of the piroxicam-incited model of synchronized colitis in T-cell receptor alpha chain-deficient mice.

Background: A multitude of mouse models are utilized to emulate and study intestinal inflammation. T-cell receptor alpha chain (TCRα)-deficient mice are used as a model of spontaneous colitis that has similarities with human ulcerative colitis. However, colitis is triggered late in the life of the mouse (age: 4-5 months), and inflammation does not develop at the same time in different mice.

Commensal Strains of Bovine Origin Competitively Mitigated O157:H7 in a Gnotobiotic Murine Intestinal Colonization Model with or without Physiological Stress.

Cattle are a primary reservoir of enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) O157:H7. Currently, there are no effective methods of eliminating this important zoonotic pathogen from cattle, and colonization resistance in relation to EHEC O157:H7 in cattle is poorly understood. We developed a gnotobiotic EHEC O157:H7 murine model to examine aspects of the cattle pathogen-microbiota interaction, and to investigate competitive suppression of EHEC O157:H7 by 18 phylogenetically distinct commensal strains of bovine origin.

Molecular Epidemiological Evidence Implicates Cattle as a Primary Reservoir of Infecting People via Contaminated Chickens.

The study aimed to determine the relative contribution of cattle to the burden of illness in a model agroecosystem with high rates of human campylobacteriosis (≥ 115 cases/100 K), and high densities of cattle, including large numbers of cattle housed in confined feeding operations (i.e., in southwestern Alberta, Canada).

Infection by Serovar Typhimurium DT104 Modulates Immune Responses, the Metabolome, and the Function of the Enteric Microbiota in Neonatal Broiler Chickens.

serovar Typhimurium incites salmonellosis in many different species including chickens and human beings. Acute salmonellosis was studied in neonatal broiler chicks by orally inoculating 2-day-old chicks with . Typhimurium DT104.

Microbiota Transplantation in Day-Old Broiler Chickens Ameliorates Necrotic Enteritis via Modulation of the Intestinal Microbiota and Host Immune Responses.

A microbiota transplant (MT) originating from mature adult chicken ceca and propagated in bioreactors was administered to day-old broiler chicks to ascertain the degree to which, and how, the MT affects ()-incited necrotic enteritis (NE). Using a stress predisposition model of NE, birds administered the MT and challenged with showed fewer necrotic lesions, and exhibited a substantially higher α- and β-diversity of bacteria in their jejunum and ceca. Birds challenged with and not administered the MT showed decreased and increased 1 in the jejunum.