. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 13.

Published in final edited form as: Sci Transl Med. 2013 Mar 27;5(178):178ra41. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005687

Table 1.

Fasting blood parameters of germ-free (GF) recipient animals receiving cecal contents from RYGB-R, SHAM-R, and GF mice. Values represent means ± SEM. Data annotated by different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05, ANOVA).

	RYGB-R	SHAM-R	GF
n	15	10	7
Blood glucose (mg/dl)	148 ± 5.5^A	147 ± 7.4^A	120 ± 3.9^B
Insulin (ng/ml)	0.46 ± 0.10^A	0.99 ± 0.19^A	0.73 ± 0.19^A
HOMA-IR	4.4 ± 0.98^A	9.8 ± 4.1^A	5.5 ± 1.5^A
Serum triglyceride (mg/dl)	77.8 ± 9.7^A	113 ± 8.5^B	73.5 ± 16.8^A
Serum NEFA (meQ/liter)	0.58 ± 0.06^A	0.65 ± 0.06^A	0.62 ± 0.05^A
Liver weight (% body weight)	4.9 ± 0.10^A	4.8 ± 0.20^A	4.8 ± 0.18^A
Liver triglyceride (mg/g liver)	22.9 ± 4.2^A	36.2 ± 9.1^A	21.6 ± 6.0^A