Comparison of fecal secretory IgA concentrations and bacterial diversity between BD patients and normal individuals. Jun Shimizu Takao Kubota Erika Takada Kenji Takai Naruyoshi Fujiwara Nagisa Arimitsu Yuji Ueda Sueshige Wakisaka Tomoko Suzuki Noboru Suzuki 10.1371/journal.pone.0153746.g003 https://plos.figshare.com/articles/figure/Comparison_of_fecal_secretory_IgA_concentrations_and_bacterial_diversity_between_BD_patients_and_normal_individuals_/3197653 <p>(A) We evaluated the secretory IgA (sIgA) concentrations of fecal supernatants using ELISA. We observed a significant increase in sIgA concentrations of patients with BD (BD) compared with those of normal individuals (NI). (B) We counted OTU numbers (annotated species numbers) and estimated alpha diversity score (Chao 1 and Shannon indexes) of each sample. We compared the titers between BD patients and normal individuals. We did not find significant differences in the parameters between BD patients and normal individuals. These biological parameters of BD patients and normal individuals were displayed with dot plots. A box-plot and a mean level (green line) of each group of BD patients and normal individuals were indicated. (C) We estimated beta diversity between BD patients and normal individuals using PCoA of QIIME software with linear conversion formulas. We visualized the PCoA plots in a three dimensional structure where three axes and each contribution ratio (principal coordinate, PC1–3, %) were depicted. We calculated the distance between the distribution of BD patients and that of normal individuals using a two-sided Student's two-sample t-test as an exploratory analysis. We obtained a significant P value of the test of beta diversity between BD patients and normal individuals.</p> 2016-04-22 06:20:46 individual RNA effect sizes Fecal sIgA concentrations BD patients OTU