Daily Feeding of Fructooligosaccharide or Glucomannan Delays Onset of Senescence in SAMP8 Mice

Table 3

Profiles of bacterial count in cecal at 38 weeks of feeding.

	R1; (n = 5)	CONT; (n = 7)	FOS; (n = 8)	GM; (n = 9)
Bifidobacterium genus	3.0 ± 2.0	3.2 ± 1.6	14.6 ± 8.5^a	12.5 ± 9.7
Lactobacillus genus	12.1 ± 10.6	3.3 ± 3.6	4.7 ± 3.7	6.6 ± 8.5
Bacteroides genus	3.2 ± 2.6	1.5 ± 2.5	5.4 ± 7.0	3.9 ± 3.7
Clostridium genus	11.9 ± 1.0	8.9 ± 6.7	32.8 ± 38.9	31.4 ± 28.7

Unit: ×10⁸ colony forming unit/1 g of cecal dry matter. Values were expressed as mean ± SD in selective medium. R1, SAMR1, and control diet; CONT, control diet; FOS, fructooligosaccharide diet; GM, glucomannan diet. ^aSignificantly different from R1, CONT, and GM, at P < 0.05 by Tukey’s post hoc test.