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. 2019 Jul 31;10:1751. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01751

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3

Effects of pretreatment with Bacillus cereus on the overall changes in the gut microbial community structure during D-GalN-induced acute liver injury. (A) The α-diversity of the gut microbiome determined based on the goods_coverage index of the probiotic group compared with the PC group. (B) The principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) plot shows the β-diversity of the gut microbiome with Bray–Curtis dissimilarity derived from 16S RNA sequencing data. (C) Comparison of taxa at the bacterial genus level between the PC and B. cereus groups. Data are presented as medians with first and third quartiles. (NC group, n = 7; PC group, n = 6; B. cereus group, n = 7). aP < 0.05 compared with the PC group. NC, negative control; PC, positive control; PCoA, principal coordinate analysis.