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 | |
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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.