Fig. 4

Effect of STW 5 treatment on the relative abundance of Bacteriodetes phylum A, Bacteroides B, Prevotella C in rats with DSS induced UC. All members of Bacteriodetes phylum showed a significant increase in DSS-induced colitis model. STW 5 succeeded to significantly reverse these changes. The microbial concentration expressed as ng per gram of feces was calculated taking 16S rRNA gene copy number into consideration as detailed in methods section. Data represented as means ± standard deviation of at least two independent experiments with number of animals of at least 14 animals per group