- a Color coded according to the fold change value, red represents increased and blue represents decreased concentrations of metabolites
- b p-values corrected by BH (Benjamini Hochberg) methods were calculated based on a parametric Student’s t-test or a nonparametric Mann-Whitney test (dependent on the conformity to normal distribution). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001