Salivary Gland Extract of Kissing Bug, Triatoma lecticularia, Reduces the Severity of Intestinal Inflammation through the Modulation of the Local IL-6/IL-10 Axis

Table 1

Histopathological alterations in mice exposed to DSS and treated or not with T. lecticularia SGE.

Groups	Control	Control + 30 μg	Saline	3 μg	10 μg	30 μg
Lamina propria swelling	Absent	Absent	Moderate	Moderate	Discrete	Discrete
Submucosa swelling	Absent	Discrete	Intense	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate
Mononuclear infiltrate in the mucosal layer	Absent	Absent	Intense	Moderate	Discrete	Moderate
Mononuclear infiltrate in the submucosal layer	Absent	Absent	Moderate	Moderate	Discrete	Moderate
Crypts	Preserved	Preserved	Severely damaged	Severely damaged	Dilated	Partly damaged