Figure 1.

Schematic for antibiotic and probiotic administration. Sixteen C57BL/6 mice received antibiotic treated water for 2 weeks in duration. Mice were then split evenly into 4 treatments: 1) continued antibiotics, 2) continued antibiotics with gavaged probiotics 3) regular water with gavaged probiotics, 4) regular water. Control animals were maintained on regular water throughout the experiment. Mice were euthanized and contents of cecum and large intestine collected.