Table 3 Abundant changes of relative pathways within metagenome.

From: Clinical Parameters and Gut Microbiome Changes Before and After Surgery in Thoracic Aortic Dissection in Patients with Gastrointestinal Complications

Module

Function

Tendency after surgery

M00667

Tetracycline resistance, efflux pump

decline

M00060

Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis

decline

M00704

Tetracycline resistance

decline

M00122

Cobalamin biosynthesis

decline

M00338

Cysteine biosynthesis,homocysteine + serine = >cysteine

rise

  1. Functional pathways which had abundance greatly changed after surgery were in the table. Each pathway had its KEGG ID and the functional description listed, and the changing trend after surgery were followed. All the significances of abundant differences were decided by the Student’s t test.
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