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ArticleOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2021

Dietary Quercetin Supplementation Attenuates Diarrhea and Intestinal Damage by Regulating Gut Microbiota in Weanling Piglets.

Baoyang Xu, Wenxia Qin, Yunzheng Xu, Wenbo Yang, Yuwen Chen, Juncheng Huang, Jianan Zhao, Libao Ma

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Article in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Baoyang XuCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
Wenxia QinCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
Yunzheng XuCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
Wenbo YangCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
Yuwen ChenCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
Juncheng HuangCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
Jianan ZhaoCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
Libao MaCollege of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6806-6899
Huazhong Agricultural University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antioxidant polyphenols from plants are potential dietary supplementation to alleviate early weaning-induced intestinal disorders in piglets. Recent evidences showed polyphenol quercetin could reshape gut microbiota when it functioned as anti-inflammation or antioxidation agents in rodent models. However, the effect of dietary quercetin supplementation on intestinal disorders and gut microbiota of weanling piglets, along with the role of gut microbiota in this effect, both remain unclear. Here, we determined the quercetin's effect on attenuating diarrhea, intestinal damage, and redox imbalance, as well as the role of gut microbiota by transferring the quercetin-treated fecal microbiota to the recipient piglets. The results showed that dietary quercetin supplementation decreased piglets' fecal scores improved intestinal damage by increasing tight junction protein occludin, villus height, and villus height/crypt depth ratio but decreased crypt depth and intestinal epithelial apoptosis (TUNEL staining). Quercetin also increased antioxidant capacity indices, including total antioxidant capacity, catalase, and glutathione/oxidized glutathione disulfide but decreased oxidative metabolite malondialdehyde in the jejunum tissue. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from quercetin-treated piglets had comparable effects on improving intestinal damage and antioxidative capacity than dietary quercetin supplementation. Further analysis of gut microbiota using 16S rDNA sequencing showed that dietary quercetin supplementation or FMT shifted the structure and increased the diversity of gut microbiota. Especially, anaerobic trait and carbohydrate metabolism functions of gut microbiota were enriched after dietary quercetin supplementation and FMT, which may owe to the increased antioxidative capacity of intestine. Quercetin increased the relative abundances of Fibrobacteres,

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Dietary SupplementsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAnimal FeedAnimalsAntioxidantsBacteriaDiarrheaDysbiosisFecal Microbiota TransplantationFemaleIntestinal DiseasesQuercetinSwineWeaningAntioxidantsQuercetin

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