Next, we examined whetherL. murinusaffects the integrity of the gut epithelial barrier in SHRs. Adult SHRs (10–15 weeks old) showed altered intestinal permeability in the proximal colon compared with age-matched WKY rats, but no change in permeability of the ileum was observed (Fig.2A–H)...
The phylogenetic tree built by the Maximum-Likelihood based on the Jukes-Cantor model shows that strains with similar sequences are clustered in the same clade level [35]. In particular, the isolatedL. murinusE3 and I1 strains in this study were clustered in the same clade as theL. murinus...