ArticleBMC medical genomics2022
Species composition and overall diversity are significantly correlated between the tongue coating and gastric fluid microbiomes in gastritis patients.
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- Single-cell sequencing: accurate disease detection.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Fusion color space analysis of tongue image characteristics in different stages of metastatic colorectal cancer and three-class model construction.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Characteristics of tongue images and tongue coating bacteria in patients with colorectal cancer.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Radiation-induced gastric injury during radiotherapy: molecular mechanisms and clinical treatment.Journal of radiation research · 2023Review
- Metagenomic and single-cell RNA-Seq survey of the Helicobacter pylori-infected stomach in asymptomatic individuals.JCI insight · 2023Article
- Construction of Tongue Image-Based Machine Learning Model for Screening Patients with Gastric Precancerous Lesions.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that the "tongue coating is produced by fumigation of stomach gas", and that tongue coating can reflect the health status of humans, especially stomach health. Therefore, studying the relationship between the microbiome of the tongue coating and the gastric fluid is of great significance for understanding the biological basis of tongue diagnosis.
methodsThis paper detected the microbiomes of the tongue coating and the gastric fluid in 35 gastritis patients using metagenomic sequencing technology, systematically constructed the microbial atlas of tongue coating and gastric juice, and first described the similar characteristics between the two sites.
resultsThere was a significant correlation between tongue coating and gastric juice in terms of microbial species composition and overall diversity. In terms of species composition, it was found that the two sites were dominated by five phyla, namely, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Fusobacteria and Proteobacteria, and that most of the gastric microbial species could be detected from the patient's own tongue coating. In terms of overall diversity, a significant correlation was found between the alpha diversity of the tongue coating microbiome and the gastric juice microbiome. Furthermore, in terms of abundance, 4 classes, 2 orders, 4 families, 18 genera and 46 species were found to significantly correlate between the tongue coating and the gastric fluid.
conclusionsThe results provide microbiome-based scientific evidence for tongue diagnosis, and offer a new perspective for understanding the biological basis of tongue diagnosis.
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