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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
UNIV SAO PAULO, CONJUNTO QUIMICAS
DOI: 10.1590/s2175-97902022e191086
Keywords
Ciprofloxacin; Moxifloxacin; Bile acids; Hydrophobicity index; Gut microbiota
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- National Science foundation of China [81603181, 81601098]
- Scientific Development Project of Suzhou [SYSD2017153, XKQ2015001]
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This study investigated the impact of fluoroquinolones on bile acid metabolism and gut microbiota. The results showed that different fluoroquinolones have distinct effects on bile acid profiles and intestinal bacteria, providing guidance for the selection of appropriate fluoroquinolones to treat infectious diseases.
Fluoroquinolones are an important class of antimicrobial agents to manage infectious diseases. However, knowledge about how host bile acids are modified by fluoroquinolones is limited. We investigated and compared the impact of fluoroquinolones on circulating bile acid profiles and gut microbiota from in vivo studies. We administered ciprofloxacin (100 mg/kg/day) or moxifloxacin (40 mg/kg/day) orally to male Wistar rats for seven days. Fifteen bile acids (BAs) from the serum and large intestine were quantified by HPLC-MS/MS. The diversity of gut microbiota after ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin treatment was analyzed using high-throughput, next-generation sequencing technology. The two fluoroquinolone-treated groups had different BA profiles. Ciprofloxacin significantly reduced the hydrophobicity index of the BA pool, reduced secondary BAs, and increased taurine-conjugated primary BAs in both the serum and large intestine as compared with moxifloxacin. Besides, ciprofloxacin treatment altered intestinal microbiota with a remarkable increase in Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio, while moxilloxacin exerted no effect. What we found suggests that different fluoroquinolones have a distinct effect on the host BAs metabolism and intestinal bacteria, and therefore provide guidance on the selection of fluoroquinolones to treat infectious diseases.
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