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. 2013 Jul 22;3(7):e81. doi: 10.1038/nutd.2013.22

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Addition of LBP alleviated hepatic inflammatory responses induced by NASH. Expressional changes of (a) tumor necrosis factor-α mRNA, (b) tumor necrosis factor-α protein, (c) interleukin-1β mRNA, (d) interleukin-1β protein, (e) iNOS mRNA, (f) COX-2 mRNA, (g) SOCS-3 mRNA and (h) SOCS-3 protein show that high-fat diet feeding in rats induces obvious inflammatory responses in the liver. Administration of LBP significantly attenuated such responses with minimal influence on the healthy rats. Data from each group were expressed as means±s.e.m. (n=8). Statistical comparison between groups was done using the Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Dunn's post hoc test to detect differences between all groups. A P-value <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant with different letter labels. C, control; L, vehicle-LBP; N, NASH; N+L, NASH+LBP.