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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2010 Oct 30;25(3):397–407. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2010.10.023

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Antibiotic treatment prevents the stressor-induced increase in circulating IL-6. A. SDR + 0 hr mice treated with vehicle had significantly higher levels of IL-6 compared to the vehicle treated HCC controls (* p < .05). Giving SDR + 0 hr mice an antibiotic cocktail prevented this stressor-induced increase in IL-6. n = 9 per group. B. SDR + 15 hr mice treated with vehicle had significantly higher levels of IL-6 compared to the vehicle treated HCC controls (* p < .05). Giving SDR + 15 hr mice an antibiotic cocktail prevented this stressor-induced increase in IL-6. n = 9 per group. C. The effects of stressor exposure on circulating IL-6 is not specific to the SDR stressor. The mean level of IL-6 in vehicle-treated mice was increased in mice exposed to a restraint stressor. Antibiotic administration prevented this increase. This increase was not quite statistically significant (p = .14) with this small sample size, n = 5 per group.