Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Can Alleviate Gastrointestinal Transit in Rats with High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity via Regulation of Serotonin Biosynthesis

Table 1

Body weight, liver weight, ratio of liver weight and body weight, and gastrointestinal transit of rats from different diets at the end of the experiment. Means ± SEM are shown. Significant differences are indicated by small letters.

	CD	HFD	HFD + FMT
Body weight (g)	406.40 ± 26.36	489.80 ± 33.89	466.67 ± 27.39
Liver weight (g)	10.48 ± 0.81	18.46 ± 1.29	16.36 ± 0.04
Liver weight: body weight (%)	2.57 ± 0.68	3.77 ± 0.20	3.51 ± 0.20
Length of intestine (cm)	113.00 ± 10.82	100.00 ± 1.73	108.50 ± 14.08
Small intestine motility (%)	40.79 ± 5.99	52.03 ± 4.81	41.75 ± 3.92

CD: control diet; HFD: high fat diet; FMT: fecal microbiota transplantation; a, compared with control diet rats, p=0.001; b compared with control diet rats, p=0.020; c, compared with control diet rats, p<0.001; d, compared with control diet rats, p=0.013; e, compared with control diet rats, p<0.001, compared with HFD + FMT group, p=0.050; f, compared with control diet rats, p<0.001; g, compared with control diet rats, p=0.033; h, compared with HFD + FMT group, p=0.045.