Journal
REDOX BIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2021.101933
Keywords
Oral microbiome; Nitric oxide; Aging
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Funding
- Dunhill Medical Trust [R269/1112]
- Wellcome Trust's Institutional Strategic Support Fund
- NIHR [CRF/2016/10027]
- Medical Research Council Clinical Infrastructure award [MR/M008924/1]
- Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund [WT097835MF]
- Wellcome Trust Multi User Equipment Award [WT101650MA]
- BBSRC LOLA award [BB/K003240/1]
- National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) [CRF-2016-10027] Funding Source: National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR)
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The study found that after nitrate supplementation, there were changes in the relative abundance of oral bacteria, which had stable effects on cardiovascular health and cognitive function. The nitrate-sensitive oral microbiome modules may serve as potential targets for improving cardiovascular and cognitive health in older people.
Many oral bacteria reduce inorganic nitrate, a natural part of a vegetable-rich diet, into nitrite that acts as a precursor to nitric oxide, a regulator of vascular tone and neurotransmission. Aging is hallmarked by reduced nitric oxide production with associated detriments to cardiovascular and cognitive function. This study applied a systems-level bacterial co-occurrence network analysis across 10-day dietary nitrate and placebo interventions to test the stability of relationships between physiological and cognitive traits and clusters of co-occurring oral bacteria in older people. Relative abundances of Proteobacteria increased, while Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes and Fusobacteria decreased after nitrate supplementation. Two distinct microbiome modules of co-occurring bacteria, that were sensitive to nitrate supplementation, showed stable relationships with cardiovascular (RothiaStreptococcus) and cognitive (Neisseria-Haemophilus) indices of health across both dietary conditions. A microbiome module (Prevotella-Veillonella) that has been associated with pro-inflammatory metabolism was diminished after nitrate supplementation, including a decrease in relative abundance of pathogenic Clostridium difficile. These nitrate-sensitive oral microbiome modules are proposed as potential pre- and probiotic targets to ameliorate age-induced impairments in cardiovascular and cognitive health.
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