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Table IV.

Fecal and cecal microbiota and cecal organic acids in rats fed an HSC diet with or without MI or PA (experiment 2).

	HSC		HSC + PA		HSC + MI

Variables	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM
Final body weight, g	175	4	179	1	178	4
Food intake, g/12 days	183	4	183	2	185	5
Liver
Weight, g/100g body wt.	5.83^a	0.08	5.52^a,b	0.08	5.31^b	0.12
Feces
Weight, g/3 days	3.51	0.08	3.89	0.18	3.60	0.19
Cecum
Tissue weight, g/100 g body wt.	0.245	0.005	0.291	0.011	0.270	0.017
Cecal digesta weight, g	1.73^a	0.05	2.08^b	0.09	1.85^a,b	0.02
pH	7.65^c	0.09	6.87^a	0.05	7.10^b	0.04
Microbiota, % of total bacteria
Lactobacillus spp.	0.006^a	0.002	0.171^b	0.143	0.434^b	0.325
Bifidobacterium spp.	0.0031^a	0.0005	0.0197^b	0.0098	0.0178^a,b	0.0098
Clostridium coccoides	4.54^b	0.50	1.02^a	0.51	4.30^b	0.36
Bacteroides	31.9	1.5	52.6	11.3	26.4	1.9
Organic acids, µmol/total digesta
Succinate	14.4^a	3.6	36.7^b	4.3	9.6^a	2.5
Lactate	3.9	2.0	3.8	1.8	4.6	0.7
Acetate	51.2	2.6	55.0	3.6	52.7	3.6
Propionate	17.9	1.8	18.1	1.4	18.9	0.6
n-Butyrate	18.8^b	1.2	21.2^a,b	1.0	23.4^a	1.8
Total organic acids	106.2^a	7.2	134.8^b	4.8	109.2^a,b	6.8

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 body weight, food intake, liver weight, fecal weight, cecal pH, cecal Clostridium cocoides and cecal organic acids; Steel-Dwass test for cecum weight, cecal digesta weight, cecal Bifidobacterium spp., cecal Lactobacillus spp. and Bacteroides). HSR, high-starch; HSC, high-sucrose; PA, sodium phytate; MI, myo-inositol; SEM, standard error of the mean.