Review for 10.1186/s12876-017-0688-4 (2017)

Reviewer ’s report  
Title: Attenuating the Rate of Total Body Fat Accumulation and Alleviating Liver Damage by  
Oral Administration of Vitamin D -enriched Edible Mushrooms in a Diet -induced Obesity 
Murine  Model is mediated by an Anti -inflammatory Paradigm Shift  
 
Version: 1 Date: 29 May 2017  
 
Reviewer: Eleonora Patsenker  
 
Reviewer's report:  
The authors nicely fulfilled the specific issues raised by me in previous version, but now, after 
some modifications (probably indicated by other reviewers) - some other "pro blems" appeared. 
The statistics described in the Results part ruin the whole beauty of the story and does not look 
good at all now. One has to rewrite it again. Most of it can just be deleted, as the way it's written 
- "For LE and LE+Vitamin D treated grou ps - p values < 0.05 OR all p values OR p values NS" - 
does not look professional or appropriate. Instead, all p values can be simply shown on the Figs 
with stars above the graphs/columns (wasn't it like that in the previous version?), with some 
explanatio n in the Fig legend (which is fine, actually, now):  *=p< 0.05, **=< 0.005, etc. No one 
wants to read this p and numbers through out the text (unless you want to emphasize something 
very significant in some cases!), especially, for the data which are not s hown..? What was the 
point to  describe  so much then?  
 
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Yes 
Are the conclusions drawn adequa tely supported by the data shown?  
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Yes 
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you recommend an  
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I am able to assess the statistics  
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Acceptable  
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