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. 2010 Nov 28;16(44):5565–5581. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i44.5565

Table 10.

Lung caspases (mean ± SE)

Group CASP-2 CASP-3 CASP-8 CASP-9
Stress (-)
Veh 18 ± 3 20 ± 2 21 ± 5 22 ± 4
Cer 27 ± 3 29 ± 4 32 ± 5 29 ± 3
Anti-TNF-α + Cer 26 ± 2 24 ± 3 24 ± 4 22 ± 3
Stress (+)
Veh 97 ± 11 103 ± 9 99 ± 8 104 ± 12
Cer 853 ± 81a 912 ± 101a 824 ± 77a 917 ± 85a
Anti-TNF-α + Cer 597 ± 48c 592 ± 55c 560 ± 45c 568 ± 47c

Lung caspases are expressed as pmol/min per milligram protein.

a

P < 0.05 vs control-vehicle Stress (-) group;

c

P < 0.05 vs Stress (+) plus Cer group. TNF-α: Tumor necrosis factor-α; CASP: Caspase.