Table 6. Differences in serum cytokine, pH, lactic acid, total bile acids and unconjugated bile acids between BFLD group and BCPD group.

	BFLD group	BCPD group	p-value
Level of serum cytokine (ng/L)
IL-1β	19.45 ± 0.85	19.89 ± 0.99	0.731
IL-6	78.87 ± 5.25	56.64 ± 2.59	0.001
TNF-α	86.44 ± 4.91	84.58 ± 4.19	0.775
Jejunal luminal content
pH	6.79 ± 0.21	6.66 ± 0.24	0.693
Lactic acid (μg/g)	5.21 ± 0.12	1.32 ± 0.09	0.000
Cholic acid (ng/g)	6.36 ± 0.65	8.62 ± 0.43	0.016
Chenodeoxycholic acid (ng/g)	8.43 ± 0.22	8.82 ± 0.43	0.435
Deoxycholic acid (ng/g)	3.99 ± 0.36	3.56 ± 0.30	0.387
Lithocholic acid (ng/g)	2.03 ± 0.13	0.71 ± 0.06	0.000
Colonic luminal content
pH	6.04 ± 0.14	6.92 ± 0.25	0.012
Lactic acid (μg/g)	6.98 ± 0.20	5.43 ± 0.12	0.000
Cholic acid (ng/g)	2.89 ± 0.30	2.60 ± 0.17	0.432
Chenodeoxycholic acid (ng/g)	1.01 ± 0.04	0.58 ± 0.04	0.000
Deoxycholic acid (ng/g)	4.82 ± 0.43	4.57 ± 0.46	0.695
Lithocholic acid (ng/g)	1.35 ± 0.10	0.56 ± 0.04	0.000