The Protective Effects of 18β-Glycyrrhetinic Acid on Helicobacter pylori-Infected Gastric Mucosa in Mongolian Gerbils

Table 2

Histopathological response seen in gerbil gastric corpus in response to Helicobacter pylori infection and treatment with either antibiotics therapy or 18β-Glycyrrhetinic acid (GRA).

Groups	Treatments	Corpus
		Infiltration of neutrophils	Infiltration of mononuclear cells	Hyperplasia	Peptic ulcer
A	Uninfected	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0
B	H. pylori infection	1.6 ± 0.1	1.3 ± 0.1	1.5 ± 0.1	1.8 ± 0.3
C	Antibiotics	0.9 ± 0.2	0.7 ± 0.2	0.6 ± 0.3	0.8 ± 0.2
D	GRA	0.9 ± 0.2	0.8 ± 0.2	0.7 ± 0.2	0.9 ± 0.2

 , compared with Group B. Values for results are expressed as means ± SD.