Table 1. Body and liver weights of the experimental mice.
| 20 weeks of age | 32 weeks of age | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mice | No. of | Body | Liver | Relative Liver weight | No. of | Body | Liver | Relative Liver weight | |
| Treatment | type | mice | Weight (g) | weight | (g/100 g body weight) | mice | weight (g) | weight | (g/100g body weight) |
| saline | Wild | 4 | 29.8±1.6a | 1.2±0.2 | 4.0±0.5 | 6 | 36.3±2.0 | 1.6±0.2 | 4.5±0.3 |
| saline | IDO(-/-) | 4 | 31.3±0.9 | 1.2±0.2 | 3.8±0.7 | 7 | 32.9±5.3 | 1.4±0.4 | 4.3±0.6 |
| DEN | Wild | 12 | 32.0±2.0 | 1.4±0.2 | 4.4±0.6 | 13 | 34.5±1.5 b | 1.7±0.2 c | 4.8±0.6 |
| DEN | IDO(-/-) | 14 | 30.9±2.3 | 1.4±0.2 | 4.4±0.5 | 14 | 30.4±3.1 | 1.4±0.3 | 4.4±0.6 |
a Mean±SD.
b Significantly different from DEN-IDO(-/-) group by Tukey-Kramer multiple comparison test (p<0.01)
c Significantly different from DEN-IDO(-/-) group by Tukey-Kramer multiple comparison test (p<0.05)