Thus, our observation of elevated fecal levels of hyodeoxycholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid after probiotic intervention could also be part of the mechanism of clinical symptom relief in the participants in this study. Taken together, our results from metagenomics and metabolomics analyses supported ...
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