. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 15.

Published in final edited form as: Food Funct. 2017 Nov 15;8(11):4179–4186. doi: 10.1039/c7fo00375g

Table 2.

Histological scores of middle and distal colon tissue

group		inflammation severity	inflammation extent	crypt damage	percent area involvement	Sum
Middle colon	G1	0.0±0.0^c	0.0±0.0^c	0.0±0.0^d	0.0±0.0^c	0.0±0.0^c
	G2	3.0±0.0^a	2.0±0.0^a	4.0±0.0^a	4.0±0.0^a	13.0±0.0^a
	G3	2.8±0.4^a	2.0±0.0^a	3.0±0.0^b	4.0±0.0^a	11.8±0.4^a
	G4	1.6±0.8^b	1.0±0.0^b	2.0±0.9^c	3.0±1.2^b	7.6±2.7^b
Distal colon	G1	0.0±0.0^c	0.0±0.0^c	0.0±0.0^d	0.0±0.0^b	0.0±0.0^d
	G2	3.0±0.0^a	2.0±0.0^a	4.0±0.0^a	4.0±0.0^a	13.0±0.0^a
	G3	2.8±0.4^ab	2.0±0.0^a	3.2±0.4^b	4.0±0.0^a	12.0±0.6^b
	G4	2.5±0.5^b	1.4±0.5^b	2.8±0.4^c	3.8±0.4^a	10.5±1.5^c

^{a, b, c, d}

indicating significant difference (p<0.05) by ANOVA analysis.