Table 2.

Antidiarrheal effects of probiotics against castor oil induced diarrheal mice

Groups	The onset of diarrhea (min)	Total number of feces	Average weight of total feces (g)	Average fecal water content (g)	Total fecal output (%)	Reduction (%)
Std	42.50±1.839	6.50±0.76	0.214±0.010	0.020±0.003
NC	22.00±1.18	15.83±1.49***	0.59±0.008***	0.090±0.006***
PC	120.50±4.02***	4.67±0.21	0.20±0.010	0.018±0.001	33.99	73.68
TG1	74.00±2.42***	6.83±0.79	0.33±0.004	0.028±0.002	56.29	56.84
TG2	87.00±1.10***§§§	6.167±1.10	0.295±0.011	0.020±0.002	50.14	61.05
TG3	105.33±3.31***§§§†	5.167±0.47	0.238±0.011	0.015±0.001	40.48	67.37

NC, negative control group; PC, positive control group; Std, standard group; TG1, treatment group 1; TG2, treatment group 2; TG3, treatment group 3.

Values are mean±SEM (n=6).

Analysis was performed using one way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s adjustment.

^***P <0.001 compared with NC group,

^§§§P <0.001 compared with TG1 group, and

^†P <0.05 compared with TG2 group.