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ArticleScientific reports2017

Alterations of microbiota structure in the larynx relevant to laryngeal carcinoma.

Hongli Gong, Yi Shi, Xiyan Xiao, Pengyu Cao, Chunping Wu, Lei Tao, Dongsheng Hou, Yuezhu Wang, Liang Zhou

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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34 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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9 authors.

Hongli GongShanghai Key Clinical Disciplines of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, 83 Fenyang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Yi ShiDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Pudong Hospital, Fudan University Pudong Medical Center, 2800 Gongwei Road, Shanghai, 201399, China. yishi750@163.com.
Xiyan XiaoShanghai Key Clinical Disciplines of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, 83 Fenyang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Pengyu CaoShanghai Key Clinical Disciplines of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, 83 Fenyang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Chunping WuShanghai Key Clinical Disciplines of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, 83 Fenyang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Lei TaoShanghai Key Clinical Disciplines of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, 83 Fenyang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Dongsheng HouShanghai Key Laboratory for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 280 South Chongqing Road, Shanghai, 200025, China.
Yuezhu WangShanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Sequencing Centre, 250 Bibo Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Liang ZhouShanghai Key Clinical Disciplines of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, 83 Fenyang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China. zhoulent@126.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The microbial communities that inhabit the laryngeal mucosa build stable microenvironments and have the potential to influence the health of the human throat. However, the associations between the microbiota structure and laryngeal carcinoma remain uncertain. Here, we explored this question by comparing the laryngeal microbiota structure in laryngeal cancer patients with that in control subjects with vocal cord polyps through high-throughput pyrosequencing. Overall, the genera Streptococcus, Fusobacterium, and Prevotella were prevalent bacterial populations in the laryngeal niche. Tumor tissue samples and normal tissues adjacent to the tumor sites (NATs) were collected from 31 laryngeal cancer patients, and the bacterial communities in laryngeal cancer patients were compared with control samples from 32 subjects. A comparison of the laryngeal communities in the tumor tissues and the NATs showed higher α-diversity in cancer patients than in control subjects, and the relative abundances of seven bacterial genera differed among the three groups of samples. Furthermore, the relative abundances of ten bacterial genera in laryngeal cancer patients differed substantially from those in control subjects. These findings indicate that the laryngeal microbiota profiles are altered in laryngeal cancer patients, suggesting that a disturbance of the microbiota structure might be relevant to laryngeal cancer.

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AdultAgedBacteriaDNA, BacterialDNA, RibosomalFemaleHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansLaryngeal NeoplasmsMaleMetagenomicsMiddle AgedPharynxPhylogenyPolypsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SDNA, BacterialDNA, RibosomalRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMCPMC5511217

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