Fermented Milk Containing Lactobacillus casei Strain Shirota Preserves the Diversity of the Gut Microbiota and Relieves Abdominal Dysfunction in Healthy Medical Students Exposed to Academic Stress

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    Composition of test beverages (Table S1); primer set for amplification of the 16S rRNA genes of the gut microbiota (Table S2); genes differentially expressed during the experimental period (Table S3); pathway analysis for stress-responding genes in the placebo group at 1 day prior (Table S4); changed values of Shannon index in the stratified analysis of subjects with or without abdominal symptoms during the preintervention period (Table S5); changes in total and subscores of the GHQ-28 (Table S6); other questionnaires at the end of the trial (Table S7); changes in scores for each item in abdominal dysfunction (Table S8); changes in scores for each item in the GSRS (Table S9).

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