Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Cross-Fostering with control dams rescues Gut Dysbiosis and Chromatin-associated Transcriptional Changes in Offspring of Opioid-Exposed Dams
doi: 10.1101/2025.11.07.687278
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Schematic for FMT with stool samples from opioid dams or opioid and saline exposed dams into 3-week-old naïve C57BL/6 mice. (B) Representative H&E-stained small intestinal sections from: left panel) pups with FMT from hydromorphone exposed dams, right panel) pups with FMT from saline exposed and hydromorphone exposed dams in 1:1 ratio. Scale bar: 50 µM. (C) Graphs showing histopathological damage score in intestinal sections in different treatment groups. Data represented as bar plots with Standard error of mean (SEM). Data was analyzed by one-way ANOVA with Student T-Test (p<0.05) (D) Spearman’s Correlation analysis between bacterial taxa between HP_HM versus CP_CM with DEG |log2FC| ≥0.05 & p-value ≤0.05. Upregulated genes are indicated in Red while Blue indicated genes that are downregulated. (E) Spearman’s Correlation analysis between bacterial taxa between HP_CM versus HP_HM with DEG |log2FC| ≥0.05 & p-value ≤0.05. Upregulated genes are indicated in Red while Blue indicated genes that are downregulated.
Article Snippet: Twelve-week-old female C57 BL/6 mice (25-30g) were purchased from Jackson Laboratories (Bar Harbor, ME, USA) (strain 3752), with age-matched littermate wild type mice used as controls.
Techniques: Saline, Staining