Immune Modulating Capability of Two Exopolysaccharide-Producing Bifidobacterium Strains
in a Wistar Rat Model
Figure 3
Content of the cell-membrane Glut4 (a) as well as the intracellular Akt and phosphorylated-Ser473-Akt (b) in gastrocnemius muscle and adipose tissues from rats fed daily for 24 days with delivery vehicle (100 μL of skimmed milk, V group) or 109 cfu per day of B. animalis subps. lactis IPLA-R1 (B1 group) or B. longum IPLA-E44 (B2 group). Data were referred to those obtained in the control rats (C group) which were not submitted to the intervention study. Bars represent mean and standard deviations obtained from 8 rats per group. Independent one-way ANOVA tests were used to compare each treatment group with the control, and differences are indicated with asterisks (). Additionally, the same test was used to assess differences among the treatment groups compared two by two. In this case, treatment groups that do not share the same letter are statistically different ().
