Research Article

Experimental Colitis Is Attenuated by Cardioprotective Diet Supplementation That Reduces Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Mucosal Damage

Table 1

Histopathological scores. H/E stainings of 3 independent tissue preparations of the experimental groups: control (ctrl), colitis (DSS), DSS + corabion, and ctrl + corabion were scored. Scoring of inflammation was done as described [17, 18].

CtrlCtrl + corabionDSSDSS + corabion value
DSS versus DSS + corabion

Inflammation0.17 ± 0.250.11 ± 0.223.56 ± 0.881.94 ± 0.720.002
Extent0.28 ± 0.360.22 ± 0.364.03 ± 1.362.08 ± 0.880.003
Crypt damage0.03 ± 0.080.06 ± 0.111.89 ± 0.781.72 ± 1.120.719
Total score0.48 ± 0.230.39 ± 0.239.48 ± 1.015.74 ± 0.890.016