Table 2 Short chain fatty acid (SCFA) production (mean ± standard deviation) in faecal cultures
Equol status | Sample | SCFA (ÎĽg/ml) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acetic | Propionic | Butyric | Acetic/Propionic | Isobutyric | Isovaleric | Valeric | Caproic | |||
Producers (n = 3) | Primary cultures | mMCB | 3630.78 ± 364.76 | 1204.29 ± 392.01 | 1420.04 ± 749.28 | 3.25 ± 0.88 | 97.18 ± 81.83 | 312.51 ± 208.9 | 24.52 ± 18.66 | 5.71 ± 5.29 |
mMCBISO | 4063.17 ± 322.93 | 1559.54 ± 325.14* | 1859.97 ± 570.4 | 2.74 ± 0.76* | 471.72 ± 5.28* | 1114.00 ± 17.79* | 27.11 ± 7.9 | 3.82 ± 1.37 | ||
Secondary cultures | mMCBISO | 3334.11 ± 655.9 | 1545.72 ± 632.46 | 1649.15 ± 189 | 2.34 ± 0.53 | 249.3 ± 223.82 | 613.10 ± 539.00 | 30.29 ± 3.97 | 2.67 ± 0.15 | |
Non-producer (n = 1) | Primary cultures | mMCB | 2743.95 ± 36.98 | 155.29 ± 2.89 | 404.61 ± 3.02 | 17.67 ± 0.13 | 6.66 ± 0.23 | 5.90 ± 0.19 | 8.74 ± 0.09 | 4.87 ± 0.02 |
mMCBISO | 2523.79 ± 25.44 | 167.85 ± 2.99 | 312.38 ± 4.2 | 15.04 ± 0.16 | 6.61 ± 0.07 | 5.61 ± 0.01 | 8.71 ± 0.26 | 4.71 ± 0.06 | ||
Secondary cultures | mMCBISO | 3537.98 ± 33.75 | 1246.96 ± 14.86 | 687.74 ± 11.19 | 2.84 ± 0.02 | 73.89 ± 1.31 | 407.66 ± 10.76 | 7.16 ± 0.12 | 2.26 ± 0.05 | |
|  | Control media | mMCB | 1000.31 ± 5.09 | 36.90 ± 0.15 | 19.52 ± 0.80 | 27.11 ± 0.25 | 4.30 ± 0.10 | 0.23 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 2.29 ± 0.04 |
mMCBISO | 1017.13 ± 22.67 | 36.63 ± 0.30 | 19.05 ± 0.39 | 27.77 ± 0.56 | 4.50 ± 0.10 | 0.32 ± 0.09 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 2.41 ± 0.01 | ||