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Nevertheless, the correlation between the cognitive impairment and abnormal changes of intestinal microflora in the preterm newborn has been rarely elucidated.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title><jats:p>To analyze the differences of fecal intestinal flora, short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and microbiota-gut-brain axis (MGBA)-related serum factors between preterm birth with and without cognitive impairment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Healthy female rats (body weight 410 \u00b1 40 g) of 16-17 days of gestation were selected for the establishment of preterm cognitive impairment model and screened by Morris water maze navigation experiments. The pathological change of rat hippocampus was confirmed by HE staining. The abundance of fecal intestinal microflora was determined by 16sRNA sequencing, while the contents of fecal SCFAs were examined by gas chromatography.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Compared with the control group, the cognitive impairment group had decreased abundance and diversity of intestinal microflora and increased abundance of <jats:italic>Proteobacteria<\/jats:italic> at the level of phylum. While the abundances of <jats:italic>Alistipes<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Bacteroides<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Prevotella<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Lactobacillus<\/jats:italic> decreased significantly at the level of order, family, and genus, the abundances of <jats:italic>Staphylococcaceae<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Enterococci<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Psychrobacter<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Oligella<\/jats:italic> increased significantly. Moreover, the levels of total SCFAs and acetic acid in the disease group were significantly lower. The fecal abundance of acetic acid was positively correlated with that of <jats:italic>Lactobacillaceae<\/jats:italic> or <jats:italic>Peptostreptococcaceae<\/jats:italic>, and negatively correlated with that of <jats:italic>Aerococcaceae<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Alcaligenaceae<\/jats:italic> in disease rats. Furthermore, cognitive impairment caused significantly decreased levels of 5-HT, GABA, and BDNF, and increased levels of GR, CRH, IL-6, and TNF-\u03b1 in rat blood.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Alterations in intestinal microflora structure and the abundances of SCFAs contributed substantially to the cognitive impairment in preterm rats, which was associated with significant changes in MGBA-related soluble factors.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2022.945851","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,19]],"date-time":"2022-08-19T06:10:47Z","timestamp":1660889447000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Changes in intestinal microflora and its metabolites underlie the cognitive impairment in preterm rats"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Xiang","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhengyang","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Qian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shanjie","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Qiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongyan","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fneur.2018.00662","article-title":"Does severity of alzheimer's disease contribute to its responsiveness to modifying gut microbiota? a double blind clinical trial","volume":"9","author":"Agahi","year":"2018","journal-title":"Front. 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