Fig 5. (A-C): O2°-, NO° and PGI2 levels in the aorta from septic and SHAM rats treated with different enteral nutrition formulations: Peptamen® AF (AF), Peptamen® HN (HN), Peptamen® AF enriched arginine (AFA).
O2°- and NO° levels were measured by electron paramagnetic resonance (Values were expressed as arbitrary units per milligram weight of dried tissue (A/Wd)) and PGI2 by Elisa. Results are expressed as mean ± SD. * p<0.05 vs. all the other groups, # p<0.05 vs. SHAM rats. n = 5 for SHAM rats and n = 12 for CLP-HN, CLP-AF and CLP-AFA groups.