Figure 3.

Effects of DHQ on inflammatory reactions. DHQ reduced inflammatory responses from APAP-induced acute liver injury in mice through the detection of the levels of TNF-α (A) and IL-6 (B) in liver tissue by an ELISA and the determination of mRNA expression of TNF-α (C), IL-6 (D) and TLR4 (E) by RT-PCR. All data are expressed as the Mean ± SD (n=6) from three independent experiments. #P < 0.05 and ##P < 0.01 compared with the control group, *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 compared with the APAP-induced acute liver injury model group.