Background: The study aimed to identify the effects of modeling procedures on bacterial communities and to investigate whether different modeling procedures lead to consistent patterns of gut microbiome compositions.

Methods: Two irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) rat models maternal separation (MS) alone and multiple-early-adversity modeling (MAM) were established and the gut microbiome were analyzed using 16S-rRNA-based high-throughput sequencing methods.

Results: Rats from both models exhibited visceral hypersensitivity and the two model groups exhibited differences in the extent of visceral sensitivity and fecal water content. The microbial community structure of the two models exhibited significant differences compared to the controls, while the two model groups also exhibited significant differences between them. Furthermore, microbial community functional predictions suggested that the two models exhibited different abundances of metabolisms and pathways. Several common and distinct characteristic differences were also observed between the two model groups. were more abundant in both model groups, while , , , and along with the family it belongs to were less abundant relative to controls. In addition, the abundance of , , , , , , , and their related taxa were specifically associated with MS group, whereas and along with its related taxa were specifically associated with MAM group. Among those, , and were found to partially mediate early adversity exposure-induced visceral hypersensitivity.

Conclusions: Our results highlight the importance in evaluating gut microbiota characteristics in IBS research while also systematically considering potential modeling procedural differences. The microbial compositional/functional differences identified in this study were suggestive to further investigation of mechanisms of early adversity induced IBS.

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