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. 2021 Jan 12;11:826. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-80637-y

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Corticosterone exacerbates alcohol-induced endotoxemia and systemic inflammation. Adult mice were fed a liquid diet with (EF) or without (PF) ethanol for four weeks. In some groups, animals were injected with corticosterone (CORT) daily. Animals in other groups were injected with the vehicle. (A) Endotoxemia was assessed by measuring plasma LPS levels. (BD) Levels of TNFα (B), IL-1β (C), IL-6 (D), and MCP1 (E) were measured in plasma by ELISA. Values in graphs are mean ± SEM (n = 6, except 4 for the PF-Vehicle group). Dots in bars indicate individual values. The numbers above the bars are p-values for differences between the groups indicated by the horizontal lines, and "ns" indicates no significant difference between groups.