Prolonged high-fat-diet feeding promotes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and alters gut microbiota in mice

Figure 8 Relative abundance of gut microbial at the phylum level of mice subjected to prolonged high-fat diet-feeding. A: Bar chart presenting the relative abundance of operational taxonomic units in bacterial phyla; B: Mean relative abundance of phyla; C: Mean relative ratio between firmicutes and bacteroidetes in Old-low-fat diet (LFD) and Old-high-fat diet-feeding (HFD) mice; D: Correlation between mean relative abundance of firmicutes and bacteroidetes and mouse body weight. Data are expressed as mean ± SE. n = 7 mice per group. ^bSignificantly different from Old-LFD (P < 0.05). HFD: High-fat diet-feeding; LFD: Low-fat diet.