Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Intake of Blueberry Fermented by Lactobacillus plantarum Affects the Gut Microbiota of L-NAME Treated Rats

Table 3

SYBR Green qPCR of bacterial 16S rDNA in rat caecal content.


	Ctrl		LN		LN + FBL		LN + PML
	Median*	25–75%	Median	25–75%	Median	25–75%	Median	25–75%

Lactobacillus	8.35^ab	7.93–8.77	8.54^b	8.50–8.86	7.84^a	7.67–8.16	8.96^b	8.71–9.07
Enterobacteriaceae	7.64	7.39–7.77	8.07	7.83–8.14	7.14	6.64–7.76	7.64	7.43–7.95
Bacteroides fragilis group	11.26^ab	11.19–11.64	11.82^b	11.13–11.99	9.2^a	7.45–11.00	11.18^ab	10.86–11.86
Akkermansia	8.63	8.00–9.15	8.60	8.09–8.89	8.56	8.14–9.06	9.23	9.17–9.50
Total bacteria	10.17	10.05–10.42	10.03	9.61–10.60	9.97	9.72–10.18	10.18	9.79–10.23

Ctrl: control (); LN: group receiving standard chow and L-NAME in drinking water (); LN + FBL: group receiving L-NAME in drinking water and fermented blueberry + L. plantarum HEAL19 added to feed (); LN + PML: group receiving L-NAME and three phenolic acid mixture + L. plantarum HEAL19 (). Data are expressed as median values and 25–75 percentiles. Groups marked with superscript letters that do not share the same letter were significantly different (). *Data are expressed as median log copy/g and 25–75 percentiles.