Fig. 1: Altered overall structure of the tongue coating microbiota in elderly SZ patients. | Translational Psychiatry

Fig. 1: Altered overall structure of the tongue coating microbiota in elderly SZ patients.

From: Altered oral microbiota and immune dysfunction in Chinese elderly patients with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study

Fig. 1

The diversity indices of Shannon (A), Simpson (B) and invsimpson (C), as well as the richness indices of ACE (D), Chao1 (E), and the observed species (F), were utilized to assess the overall structure of the tongue coating microbiota in SZ patients and healthy controls. The data are presented as mean ± standard deviation. Unpaired t-tests (two-tailed) were used to analyze the variation between the groups. Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) plots illustrated individual tongue coating microbiota based on Bray–Curtis (G), Jaccard (H), and unweighted (I) and weighted (J) UniFrac distances in the elderly SZ patients and the healthy controls. Each symbol represented a sample. The Venn diagram illustrated the overlap of OTUs in the SZ-associated microbiota and healthy controls (K).

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