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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2020 Nov 4;91:437–450. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.11.001

Table 2.

SCFA levels.

Sham Abx Sham + Tb Abx + Tb
Cecum (μMol/g)
Glyceric acid 47.42 ± 2.961 19.17 ± 5.328* 24.71 ± 3.748* 18.86 ± 2.044*
Lactic acid 3.534 ± 0.5094 0.4402 ± 0.2024* 4.767 ± 0.8979 1.235 ± 0.5047*#
Acetic acid 16.34 ± 0.8928 9.919 ± 2.662* 23.8 ± 3.853 4.747 ± 1.029*#
Propionic acid 1.859 ± 0.1723 0.4407 ± 0.07178* 3.476 ± 0.4848 1.018 ± 0.2975*#
Butyric acid 14.28 ± 1.973 6.691 ± 1.365* 8.543 ± 1.485 3.403 ± 0.5179
Fecal (μMol/g)
Glyceric acid 1.228 ± 0.1274 0.4602 ± 0.06495* 0.606 ± 0.103* 0.4265 ± 0.07653*
Lactic acid 52.52 ± 9.956 4.427 ± 2.213* 40.12 ± 9.062 5.887 ± 3.768*#
Acetic acid 42.13 ± 2.356 31.19 ± 2.6* 55.54 ± 7.05 41.48 ± 3.752
Propionic acid 3.279 ± 0.1129 1.679 ± 0.05846* 2.516 ± 0.6894 1.59 ± 0.06127*
Butyric acid 2.698 ± 0.2735 0.8903 ± 0.1984* 0.8988 ± 0.1802* 0.2775 ± 0.01434*
*

p < 0.05 vs sham

#

p < 0.05 vs Sham + Tb

N = 5–7.