Journal: iScience
Article Title: Dietary fiber reduces mortality from secondary sepsis in a murine model of Clostridioides difficile infection
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115258
Figure Lengend Snippet: Plasma markers of systemic inflammation and kidney injury in CDI mice across diets (A) PCoA of Canberra distances of mean-normalized sepsis/immune marker concentrations. Points are colored by diet, and shapes indicate whether mice were humanely euthanized due to clinical sickness or survived until the experimental endpoint. Vectors show the correlation of each measured factor with PC1 and PC2, with the vector length indicating the relative strength of the correlation. Only statistically significant vectors are shown (multiple regression with Benjamini-Hochberg multiple test correction, p.adj. < 0.05). (B) Plasma concentration of each marker that significantly differed between diets (blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and immune factors sCD14, CXCL1, IL-10, IL-1B, IL-6, and TNF-a) at sacrifice. Pairwise comparisons of concentrations between diets were calculated using Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn’s post hoc tests, with p -value corrections conducted via Benjamini and Hochberg. Boxplot lines (from top to bottom) depict the 75 th , 50 th (median), and 25 th percentiles, with lines extending from the top/bottom of the boxplot indicating the largest/smallest observation within ±1.5∗IQR (inter-quartile range). P-value significance (∗∗∗∗: p < 0.0001, ∗∗∗: p < 0.001, ∗∗: p < 0.01, and ∗: p < 0.05).
Article Snippet: Soluble CD14 (sCD14) levels were quantified using the Quantikine Mouse sCD14 ELISA Kit (Catalog No. MC140, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA) following the manufacturer’s instructions.
Techniques: Clinical Proteomics, Marker, Plasmid Preparation, Concentration Assay