Acupoint Massage Therapy Alters the Composition of Gut Microbiome in Functional Constipation Patients/Experiment 2

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-5-6

Curated date: 2025/04/23

Curator: Montana-D

Revision editor(s): Montana-D, KateRasheed

Subjects

Location of subjects
China
Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled. Contact us to have more species added.
Homo sapiens
Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology
Feces Cow dung,Cow pat,Droppings,Dung,Excrement,Excreta,Faeces,Fecal material,Fecal matter,Fewmet,Frass,Guano,Matières fécales@fr,Merde@fr,Ordure,Partie de la merde@fr,Piece of shit,Porción de mierda@es,Portion of dung,Portion of excrement,Portion of faeces,Portion of fecal material,Portion of fecal matter,Portion of feces,Portion of guano,Portion of scat,Portionem cacas,Scat,Spoor,Spraint,Stool,Teil der fäkalien@de,Feces,feces
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Treatment outcome measurement Treatment outcome measurement,treatment outcome measurement
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Control group
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Experimental group
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Experimental group of patients before and after AMT (Acupoint Massage Therapy)
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
51
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
50
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
3 months

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
V3-V4
Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
Illumina

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
relative abundances
Statistical test
Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon)
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.05
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
No

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
unchanged
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
unchanged
Richness Number of species
unchanged
Faith Phylogenetic diversity, takes into account phylogenetic distance of all taxa identified in a sample
unchanged

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-5-6

Curated date: 2025/04/23

Curator: Montana-D

Revision editor(s): Montana-D

Source: Figure 4A

Description: Significantly differential genera between the samples from the experimental and control groups

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Experimental group

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Pseudobutyrivibrio
Ruminiclostridium

Revision editor(s): Montana-D

Signature 2

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-5-6

Curated date: 2025/04/23

Curator: Montana-D

Revision editor(s): Montana-D

Source: Figure 4A

Description: Significantly differential genera between the samples from the experimental and control groups

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Experimental group

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Fusicatenibacter

Revision editor(s): Montana-D