Figure 4.

Drip loss and abdominal fat were altered after FMT. (A) Body weight, (B) abdominal fat, (C) drip loss, (D) muscle fiber diameter after FMT, (E,F) relative expression of muscle fiber diameter-related genes, (G,H) paraffin sections of muscle fiber (BF: left and AF: right) [(G) biceps femoris muscle fiber and (H) breast muscle fiber]. AF: Fecal transfer from the Arbor Acres broilers into the Arbor Acres broiler; BF: Fecal transfer from the Beijing-You broilers into the Arbor Acres broilers. The numbers of independent biological samples analyzed in panel A to H were AF (n = 5) and BF (n = 5). All the data are expressed as mean ± SEM. All the data were analyzed using ANOVA, followed by the Tukey's test, and were considered as statistically significant at *p < 0.05 between the indicated groups. Figures in (G,H) are muscle fiber of HandE staining.