Figure 2.

Differential expression of porcine inflammation‐related genes in the postmortem colonic explants harvested from the mature pigs and subjected to incubation at 3 h in the absence (a) or presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (b). Sections of postmortem colonic tissue from mature pigs were processed and incubated in 1 ml Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing 10 μg/ml LPS in a humidified cell culture incubator maintained at 37°C with 5% CO₂ for 3 h. The abundance of gene transcripts was measured using a customized quantitative real‐time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) array and the gene expression value is presented relative to the tissue harvested at 0 h time‐point.