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. 2020 Mar 3;10:3950. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60862-1

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The workflow used in this study. (A) chronic restraint-induced stress was applied to Sprague Dawley rats during the critical adolescent period, while a control group remained in their home cages. Rats were sacrificed immediately after stress (PD 44) or 3 weeks after stress (PD 64) as a model of adolescent and young adulthood. (B) DNA isolation. (C) Gut microbial metabolites extraction. (D) PCR amplification of the 16S rDNA region (E) Apply targeted metabolic profiling for cecum samples. (F) The next generation sequencing library was quantitated by KAPA qPCR reaction and Agarose Gel Analysis were applied as quality control for size selection of genomic DNA. (G) Apply statistical analysis using MetaboAnalyst 4.0. (H) Next generation sequencing using the MiSeq platform. (I) Post-processing sequencing data were analyzed using QIIME. (J) Statistical analysis of metabolite profiles. (K) Principal co-ordinate plot represented the beta diversity of four groups. (L) Significant metabolite-microbial associations generated by Spearman correlation analysis.