Figure 6.
Antibiotic (AB) treatment effects on CI EtOH induced parameters of colonic permeability immediately after EtOH removal. AB treatment prevented the CI EtOH–induced increase in LPS [endotoxin units (EU)] (A) but not the changes induced in permeability to FITC-dextran (B), ZO-1 (C), occludin (D), MMP-9 activity (E), and iNOS expression (F). Results are shown as means ± sem; n = 5–8. *P < 0.05, ***P < 0.001 (different from water group); δδδP < 0.001 (different from the EtOH-AB− group).