Stool samples were collected from each mouse in the 8th week and immediately snap frozen in liquid nitrogen before storage at −80°C. The feces were collected after administration and extracted using a fecal DNA isolation kit (Qiagen, Germantown, USA). The extracted DNA from each sample was used as the template to amplify the V4 region of the 16S rRNA genes for subsequent pyrosequencing, which was performed by Novogene (Beijing, China) as described previously.47 (link)
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