Effect of Modified Pulsatilla Powder on Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O101-Induced Diarrhea in Mice

Table 3

Effect of MPP on cecal microflora in female and male mice. The values are presented as means ± standard deviation (10 mice/group). Data within a row without the same superscripts are different significantly ().

Groups	Normal	Negative	POS	MPP-L	MPP-M	MPP-H
Female
Bifidobacterium (lgCFU/g)	8.42 ± 0.17	7.68 ± 0.04	8.76 ± 0.44	8.53 ± 0.39	9.10 ± 0.08	7.80 ± 0.29
Lactobacilli (lgCFU/g)	8.90 ± 0.16	7.86 ± 0.47	8.62 ± 0.31	8.63 ± 0.23	8.49 ± 0.16	7.96 ± 0.20
Enterococcus (lgCFU/g)	6.88 ± 0.45	8.45 ± 0.74	8.08 ± 0.35	8.37 ± 0.10	8.01 ± 0.03	7.65 ± 0.08
E. coli (lgCFU/g)	4.92 ± 0.15	6.52 ± 0.40	4.63 ± 0.13	5.23 ± 0.22	4.98 ± 0.63	4.67 ± 0.17
Enterobacterium (lgCFU/g)	5.56 ± 0.38	7.21 ± 1.08	5.14 ± 0.41	5.38 ± 0.19	5.26 ± 0.28	4.83 ± 0.14
	1.51	1.07	1.70	1.59	1.73	1.61
Male
Bifidobacterium (lgCFU/g)	8.63 ± 0.17	7.77 ± 0.05	8.50 ± 0.59	7.92 ± 0.93	8.87 ± 0.08	8.14 ± 0.35
Lactobacilli (lgCFU/g)	9.11 ± 0.07	8.65 ± 0.15	8.65 ± 0.19	8.41 ± 0.23	8.56 ± 0.30	7.97 ± 0.76
Enterococcus (lgCFU/g)	6.54 ± 0.08	7.70 ± 0.25	7.13 ± 1.42	7.38 ± 0.24	7.78 ± 0.22	7.70 ± 0.18
E. coli (lgCFU/g)	5.21 ± 0.39	6.02 ± 0.02	4.80 ± 0.10	5.68 ± 0.61	5.06 ± 0.14	4.81 ± 0.25
Enterobacterium (lgCFU/g)	5.86 ± 1.3	6.87 ± 0.11	5.01 ± 0.35	6.03 ± 0.80	5.58 ± 1.31	4.96 ± 0.48
	1.47	1.13	1.70	1.31	1.60	1.64