Electroacupuncture Prevents Osteoarthritis of High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rats

Figure 4

Electroacupuncture increased the microbial diversity and altered the structure of the community of feces in obese rats. (a) Richness and diversity of the fecal microbiota. All data are expressed as the ( per group). Post hoc ANOVA was used to test for statistical significance. , , and versus the control group; , , and versus the DIO-KOA group. (b) Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of the Bray-Curtis distance. (c) Cluster analysis of the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) based on the Bray-Curtis distance.

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