. 2018 Mar 16;8(5):466–474. doi: 10.3892/br.2018.1079

Table III.

Fecal and cecal microbiota and cecal organic acids in rats fed an HSR or HSC diet with or without PA (experiment 1).

	HSR		HSR + PA		HSC		HSC + PA

Variables	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM
Feces
Weight, g/3 days	3.89^a,b	0.14	3.96^a,b	0.13	3.54^a	0.07	4.11^b	0.14
Microbiota,% of total bacteria
Lactobacillus spp.	4.76^a,b	1.81	7.20^b	2.11	0.15^a	0.03	9.29^b	3.01
Bifidobacterium spp.	0.077	0.044	0.153	0.090	0.013	0.009	0.006	0.001
Clostridium coccoides	7.32^a	1.39	3.56^b	0.61	7.17^b	1.26	0.02^a	0.01
Bacteroides	15.9^a,b	2.1	14.7^a	2.9	17.1^a,b	2.0	27.4^b	4.3
Cecum
Tissue weight, g/100 g body wt.	0.380^b	0.029	0.335^a,b	0.011	0.264^a	0.017	0.322^a,b	0.022
Cecal digesta
Weight, g	2.47^a	0.12	3.22^b	0.19	1.93^a	0.12	2.25^a	0.11
pH	6.90^b	0.18	6.22^a	0.05	7.62^c	0.15	6.92^b	0.09
Microbiota, % of total bacteria
Lactobacillus spp.	1.66^a,b	0.79	1.88^b	0.71	0.04^a	0.01	0.50^b	0.06
Bifidobacterium spp.	0.0077^a,b	0.0043	0.0277^a,b	0.0083	0.0024^a	0.0003	0.0060^b	0.0015
Clostridium coccoides	8.34^b	1.69	2.36^a,b	0.78	5.39^b	0.79	0.48^a	0.36
Bacteroides	30.2	1.8	45.7	8.8	30.3	2.0	53.4	13.9
Organic acids (µmol/total digesta)
Succinate	2.1^a	0.8	129.3^b	12.3	0.9^a	1.3	59.2^b	18.3
Lactate	2.5	1.2	7.7	2.7	1.3	0.4	2.0	0.6
Acetate	93.4^a,b	12.4	129.9^b	17.7	69.2^a	3.5	67.4^a,b	6.6
Propionate	34.6^b	3.5	39.4^a,b	8.5	23.6^a,b	1.5	18.0^a	1.7
n-Butyrate	34.5	7.2	34.7	3.5	25.9	1.2	45.2	25.8
Total organic acids	165.3^a,b	24.2	341.2^c	23.3	121.2^a	4.9	190.7^b	25.3

Mean values with their SEM; n=6.

^a-c

Mean values with unlike superscript letters were significantly different, P<0.05 (Tukey post hoc test for fecal weight, fecal Bacteroides, cecum weight, cecal digesta weight, cecal pH; Steel-Dwass test for fecal Lactobacillus spp., fecal Clostridium coccoides, fecal Bifidobacterium spp., cecal microbiota and cecal organic acids). HSR, high-starch; HSC, high-sucrose; PA, sodium phytate; SEM, standard error of the mean.