Further scrutiny of the SCFA profile revealed that while butyrate showed only a decreasing trend, acetate and propionate levels were significantly reduced, implying an impact on the host immune system since SCFAs possess anti‐inflammatory features (Minamoto et al ., 2019 ).
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Catching a glimpse of the bacterial gut community of companion animals: a canine and feline perspective.
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In the same way, some members of the Bacteroidetes, especially Bacteroides plebeius which has been associated with remission in humans with inflammatory bowel disease, and Actinobacteria phyla showed a trend towards a decrease abundance in case of CE (Marsilio et al ., 2019 ).
While the Lactobacillus genus was shown to elicit a slight and statistically non‐significant increase in relative abundance, the Bifidobacterium taxa showed a marked trend of numerical enhancement during the eight weeks of treatment, thus supporting the bifidogenic effect of this specific FOS component.