Table 1. Macroscopic, histopathological and immunohistochemical scores of tissues.

	Control Group	Colitis and saline treatment group	Colitis and adenosine treatment group
Macroscopic score	0.18 ± 0.09	2.6 ± 0.4*	1.85 ± 0.54##
Histopathological score	0.2 ± 0.08	3.45 ± 0.3*	2.38 ± 0.65#
Immunohistochemistry NF-kB expression (%)	15.6 ± 3.8	78.6 ± 7.5*	24.5 ± 6.2##

*P < 0.0001, Compared with the control group.

#P < 0.05, ## P < 0.001, Compared with the colitis and saline group.