. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Jan 26.

Published in final edited form as: Apoptosis. 2005 Dec;10(6):1305–1315. doi: 10.1007/s10495-005-2138-y

Table 2.

Epithelial cell apoptosis and crypt-villus dimensions

Group	EC Apoptosis^a (%)	Villus height (μm)	Crypt depth (μm)
Non-operated Control	1.6 ± 0.7	310 ± 42	93 ± 18
Sham	2.7 ± 1.0	353 ± 40	77 ± 10
Sham+ACE-I	1.9 ± 0.4^†	340 ± 20	87 ± 6
SBS	4.3 ± 1.3^*	556 ± 66^*	113 ± 14^*
SBS+ACE-I	1.8 ± 0.5^‡	552 ± 56^*	145 ± 22^‡

Summary (mean ±SD, from at least 6 mice per group) of results of ACE-inhibitor (ACE-I) studies. Sham+ACE-I was used as an additional control to assess the effects of ACE-I in the absence of a SBS.

Results of TUNEL analysis (number of apoptotic cells per 100 epithelial cells).

Abbreviations: IEL, intraepithelial lymphocytes; ACE-I angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor; EC, epithelial cells.

P<0.05 sham vs. SBS

^†

P<0.05 Sham vs. Sham + ACE-I

^‡

P<0.05 SBS vs. SBS+ACE-I.