Effects of Tert-Butylhydroquinone on Intestinal Inflammatory Response and Apoptosis following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice

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NF-κB binding activity in the intestinal tissue in sham + vehicle group, TBI + vehicle group, and TBI + tBHQ group (𝑛=6). EMSA autoradiography of NF-κB DNA binding is shown on top of the graph, and the order of individual bands corresponds to that of graph bars. Lane 1: sham + vehicle group; lane 2: TBI + vehicle group; lane 3: TBI + tBHQ group. tBHQ treatment markedly suppressed the activation of NF-κB in the gut following TBI. ^∗∗𝑃<.01 versus sham + vehicle group; ^##𝑃<.01 versus TBI + vehicle group.

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