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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Lung Res. 2017 Dec 8;43(9-10):395–406. doi: 10.1080/01902148.2017.1385110

Figure 1. Dietary salt does not affect weight gain in mice and modulates bleomycin-induced weight loss.

Figure 1

A) Mice were fed low, regular, or high salt diets for 2 weeks and weighed daily, and the weight of each mouse was calculated as a percentage of the weight of the mouse at day 0. B) After 2 weeks exposure to the various salt diets, some of the mice from the groups in panel A received oropharyngeal saline, continuing the feeding on the low, regular, or high salt diets, and were weighed daily. Day 0 on the graph corresponds to the day of oropharyngeal saline. C) After 2 weeks exposure to the various salt diets, other mice from the groups in panel A received oropharyngeal bleomycin (Bleo) to induce pulmonary fibrosis, continuing the feeding on the low, regular or high salt diets, and were weighed daily. Values are mean± SEM, n = 3 mice for the control and bleo-low salt groups; n = 4 for the bleo-regular salt and bleo-high salt groups. In B, * indicates p<0.05 comparing high salt diet to regular salt diet (1-way ANOVA, Tukey’s test).