Effect of Electroacupuncture in Mice with Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Induced Colitis and the Influence of Gut Microbiota

Figure 3

Overall structural modulation of gut microbiota after EA ST36 treatment. (a) Rarefaction analysis on Chao1 curves for nine samples, a measure of species richness. (b) Rarefaction analysis on Shannon curves for nine samples, a measure of species diversity. (c) The rank abundance of samples. (d) Multiple-sample PCA. (e) Venn diagram of OTUs in the three groups. (f) Multiple-sample similarity tree. (A) Samples of the control group, (B) samples of the DSS group, (C) samples of the DSS + EA group (a–f, n = 3). EA: electroacupuncture ST36.

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