Alpinia oxyphylla Miq. Extract Prevents Diabetes in Mice by Modulating Gut Microbiota

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AOE modulated the structure and diversity of the gut microbiota. (a) Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) and (b) sample clustering results of the unweighted UniFrac distances of microbial 16S rRNA sequences from the V3-V4 region in fecal contents at week 8. The alpha diversity analysis, including Shannon diversity (c), Chao1 diversity (d), and Simpson diversity (c). There were six mice in each group.

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