Table 3.

α-diversity indices of gut microbiota in each group.

Groups	ACE	Chao1	Shannon	Simpson
NC	397.13 ± 42.31	403.26 ± 46.43	3.46 ± 0.16	0.1052 ± 0.031
MC	376.89 ± 32.99	377.66 ± 36.81	3.56 ± 0.24	0.0705 ± 0.023
MSCP	402.00 ± 54.80	411.78 ± 58.24	3.92 ± 0.35	0.0526 ± 0.019

Data are expressed as mean ± SD.