highly significantp = 0.001
The subsequent PERMANOVA confirmed very strong, highly significant metabolic shifts comparing predose and postdose metabolomics signatures with F = 20.665, R 2 = 0.408, p = 0.001 for visit 2 and with F = 16.084, R 2 = 0.349, p = 0.001 for visit 1, based on 999 permutations in both analysis cases.