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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Nov 11;39(12):2313–2323. doi: 10.1111/acer.12900

Figure 5. Germ-free mice display elevated gastrointestinal expression of ethanol-metabolizing genes.

Figure 5

Figure 5

Conventional (Conv; n=8–15) and germ-free C57BL/6 mice (GF; n=8–16) were gavaged with ethanol (300μl, 30% vol/vol) or an isocaloric amount of dextrose (300μl, 0.42 g/ml) once, and harvested after 9 h. Expression levels of indicated ethanol-metabolizing genes were determined in stomach, proximal, mid and distal small intestine, cecum, proximal and distal colon. Hepatic expression in conventional mice is shown as comparison. *p<0.05.