In diet-induced obese mice (16 weeks HFD), subcutaneous 5-Amino-1MQ treatment for 11 days (20 mg/kg/injection, three injections daily) produced significantly reduced body weights, white adipose tissue masses, and adipocyte cell sizes compared to vehicle controls
Step 4: Post-Treatment There is no downtime, and most people return to normal activities immediately after treatment
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The BIOM file output from the DADA2 pipeline and the DECIPHER-aligned FastTree phylogenetic tree were input into QIIME (v1.9.1) and the scripts in the Supplementary Materials (QIIME Scripts compilation) were used to establish the alpha diversity metrics of Chao1 richness estimate, Simpsons evenness measure E, Shannon diversity index H, Simpsons diversity index, and Faiths phylogenetic diversity metric (whole tree) as well as the beta diversity measures of unweighted and weighted UniFrac analyses (the latter of which factors in ASV abundance 37 ) and BrayCurtis dissimilarity analysis