The Effect of Butyrate-Supplemented Parenteral Nutrition on Intestinal Defence Mechanisms and the Parenteral Nutrition-Induced Shift in the Gut Microbiota in the Rat Model

Table 2

Alpha diversity.

	OTUs	Chao1	Shannon	Simpson
control	477 (180)	814 (340)	6.23 (1.14)	0.96 (0.03)
PN	429 (109)	726 (289)	6.04 (1.43)	0.96 (0.1)
PN+But	328 (157)^†	583 (288)	4.53 (3.44)	0.85 (0.34)

Data are given as median and IQR. ^† p <0.05 PN+But vs. control.