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. 2020 Apr 29;11:522. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.00522

Table 2.

Quantity of operational taxonomic unit (OTU) and Simpson and Shannon index of bacterial diversity in normal diet (NFD) group versus high-fat diet (HFD) group and HFD group versus simvastatin (SIM) group (n=8, x ± sd).

Treatment OTU level Alpha-diversity
Simpson Shannon
NFD 40,833 ± 7,698# 0.076 ± 0.015# 3.87 ± 0.20#
HFD 37,782 ± 4,216 0.052 ± 0.015 3.56 ± 0.17
SIM 40,712 ± 6,458# 0.14 ± 0.086# 3.01 ± 0.47#

#P < 0.05 as compared to the HFD group.