Table 1.

Details of experimental animals used

Study	Treatment group	Genotype	Number of animals	Sex	Age range (weeks)	Weight range at start of procedure (g)
I.p. injection of LPS (group 1)	Control	WT	4	Male	17–18	21–28
	Treatment	WT	4	Male	17–18	20–25
	Control	P2ry6−/−	4	Male	18–20	22–29
	Treatment	P2ry6−/−	4	Male	18–20	20–26
I.p. injection of LPS (group 2)	Control	WT	4	Male	20–26	32–36
	Treatment	WT	4	Male	20–26	34–38
	Control	P2ry6−/−	4	Male	20–25	28–35
	Treatment	P2ry6−/−	4	Male	20–25	29–35