Figure 6.

Effects of Blastocystis-altered gut microbiota on the severity of experimental colitis. (A) Study design. Weight changes (B) and DAI (C) in control, ST4, and ST7 altered microbiota recipient mice. (D) H&E-stained colon sections from the three groups (Scale bar = 100 μm). (E) colon length and histological scores in the three groups. (F) The concentration of acetic, propionic, butyric, and isobutyric, valeric acid, isovaleric, 2-methylbutyric, and caproic acid, and 4-methylvaleric acid in the recipient mice. Data are representative of two independent experiments and shown as the mean ± SEM. One-way ANOVA p-values adjusted for Tukey's multiple comparisons are shown (E, F). Two-way ANOVA with Dunnett's multiple comparison testing were used for multiple comparisons (B, C). *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.