Fig. 6

Effect of STW 5 treatment on the relative abundance of Proteobacteria in rats with DSS induced UC. DSS administration led to a 20-fold increase in Proteobacteria relative abundance which was significantly reduced after STW 5 treatment. The microbial concentration expressed as ng per gram of feces was calculated taking 16S rRNA gene copy number into consideration as detailed in the 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