Vitamin D may have immunomodulatory effects in the intestine. Our objective was to determine if exposure to vitamin D mitigates intestinal inflammation in IL-10 KO mice. Mice were randomized to a diet containing 25 IU (low) or 5000 IU (high) of vitamin D/kg of diet in utero and offspring were maintained on the same diet or switched to the other diet at weaning. Fecal samples were collected at 3 months of age. Vitamin D did not affect intestinal inflammation in male and female mice and did not affect KC cytokine concentration or regulate colonic gene expression in male mice. Vitamin D modulated the gut microbiota in a sex-specific manner and depending on timing of exposure. Females in the HH group had significantly higher fecal counts of C. coccoides
than the other vitamin D interventions. Therefore, vitamin D may favourably modulate microbiota composition without attenuating inflammation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/42388 |
| Date | 15 November 2013 |
| Creators | Glenn, Andrea |
| Contributors | Ward, Wendy, Comelli, Elena |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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