Oral antibiotics enhance antibody responses to keyhole limpet hemocyanin in orally but not muscularly immunized chickens
Oral antibiotics enhance antibody responses to keyhole limpet hemocyanin in orally but not muscularly immunized chickens
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口服抗生素增强口服免疫鸡对匙孔血蓝蛋白的抗体反应,但不能增强肌肉免疫鸡的抗体反应
DOI:
10.1111/asj.12424
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2016
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Murai;A.;Kitahara;K.;Okumura;S.;Kobayashi;M. and Horio;F.
Recent studies have emphasized the crucial role of gut microbiota in triggering and modulating immune response. We aimed to determine whether the modification of gut microbiota by oral co‐administration of two antibiotics, ampicillin and neomycin, would lead to changes in the antibody response to antigens in chickens. Neonatal chickens were given or not given ampicillin and neomycin (0.25 and 0.5 g/L, respectively) in drinking water. At 2 weeks of age, the chicks were muscularly or orally immunized with antigenic keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), and then serum anti‐KLH antibody levels were examined by ELISA. In orally immunized chicks, oral antibiotics treatment enhanced antibody responses (IgM, IgA, IgY) by 2–3‐fold compared with the antibiotics‐free control, while the antibiotics did not enhance antibody responses in the muscularly immunized chicks. Concomitant with their enhancement of antibody responses, the oral antibiotics also lowered theLactobacillusspecies in feces. Low doses of antibiotics (10‐fold and 100‐fold lower than the initial trial), which failed to change the fecalLactobacilluspopulation, did not modify any antibody responses when chicks were orally immunized with KLH. In conclusion, oral antibiotics treatment enhanced the antibody response to orally exposed antigens in chickens. This enhancement of antibody response was associated with a modification of the fecalLactobacilluscontent, suggesting a possible link between gut microbiota and antibody response in chickens.