Figure 2

Changes in the body weight and the intestinal microbiota of the large intestine. Weight changes of WC, MC groups and mice re-nourished with milk, PFM and BFS. Each point represents average ± SD of weight data pooled from 30 mice (10 mice from each separated trial). The large intestine were aseptically removed, weighed and placed into sterile tubes containing peptone water and aliquots of the appropriate dilution were spread onto the surface of different agarized media. Results are expressed as means ± SD of the log₁₀ CFU/g large intestine. A) Represents the basal data, after the malnutrition period, comparing MC and WC groups. B) Represents the results obtained after 5 days of re-nutrition (day 35) in all the groups assayed. Each mean represents data from nine animals. ^a,b,cMeans for each medium without a common letter differ significantly (p < 0.05).