Table 3.

Effect of spearmint treatment in the evaluated macroscopic markers of TNBS-induced colitis.

Group	Colon Length (cm)	Lesion Extension (cm)	Diarrhoea Score	Mortality (%)
Sham	14.5 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0
Ethanol (50%)	14.1 ± 0.4	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0
TNBS	11.8 ± 0.5#	3.6 ± 0.4#	3.0 ± 0.0#	37.5
TNBS + Spearmint	14.1 ± 1.2*	1.9 ± 1.0*	0.9 ± 0.8*	22.2

Legend: EtOH: Ethanol; TNBS: 2,4,6-Trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid. # p < 0.001 compared with ethanol group; * p < 0.001 compared with TNBS group.