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. 2020 Feb 19;10:2921. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-59890-8

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Intestinal inflammatory mediator responses in ascorbate treated mice following C. jejuni infection. Starting four days before peroral C. jejuni infection on days 0 and 1, secondary abiotic IL-10−/− mice were treated with synthetic ascorbate (ASCOR; open circles) or placebo (PLC; filled circles) via the drinking water. At day 6 post-infection. pro-inflammatory mediators including (A) nitric oxide, (B) TNF, (C) IL-6 and (D) IFN-γ were measured in supernatants of ex vivo biopsies derived from the colon as well as (E) IFN-γ concentrations assessed in mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN). Naive mice served as negative controls (open diamonds). Medians, significance levels (p-values) assessed by the Kruskall Wallis test followed by Dunns correction and numbers of analyzed animals (in parentheses) are indicated. Data were pooled from four independent experiments.