Figure 2.

Expression levels of inflammatory cell markers (a) and inflammatory‐related genes (b) before and after eradication of Helicobacter pylori. Their expression levels were measured in entire gastric tissues by RT‐qPCR. Expression levels increased by H. pylori infection, but the influence of the infection period was not observed. After eradication, their expression levels were decreased, and the expression levels of the three inflammation‐related genes after eradication were not different among the gerbils with 10, 20, and 50 weeks of infection. Mean expression level ± standard error (SE) is shown.